Epitaph

IGCyr086600

Trismegistos ID: 738417

Source Description

Support

White marble base with plain mouldings above and below on three sides, slightly chipped off at left (0.685; 0.325;0.44).

Layout

Inscribed in two lines on front face (0.585; 0.155;0.415).

Letters

0.03.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1979 at Cyrene : probably from the South Necropolis .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 and again in 1983 at Cyrene : inside archaeological enclosure North of Caesareum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997 , p. 36 n. 5 (cf. Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique , 1999.623), whence SEG , 47.2181.

Text

Ἀπολλόδωρος Εὐαγόρω

Apparatus

French translation

Apollodôros fils d'Euagoros.

English translation

Apollodoros son of Euagoros.

Italian translation

Apollodoros figlio di Euagoros.

Commentary

With this ending at the genitive, the father's name was not the more usual form in -αγόρας, but a variant in -άγορος; such variant names are rare elsewhere and unknown for Cyrenaeans, but for a visitor at Philae (SEG , 31.1523) who seems to be a Cyrenaean.

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