Epitaph

IGCyr086800

Trismegistos ID: 738419

Source Description

Support

White marble base with egg and dart moulding above (partially buried) with front face damaged (0.73; 0.28;0.48).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.05.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found at an unknown date at Cyrene : probably from the South Necropolis .

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editors.

Bibliography

Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997 , p. 36 n. 7 (ph.), whence SEG , 47.2183.

Text

Ἄ̣ριστ[ις?] Πατρι[---] 

Apparatus

French translation

Arist[is?] fils de Patri [---] .

English translation

Arist[is?] son of Patri [---] .

Italian translation

Arist[is?] figlio di Patri [---] .

Commentary

From the bad photograph available, it is difficult to know how many letters are missing at right. If at l. 1 only two letters are missing, Ἄριστις is a very good restoration. In that case, only two letters would be missing also at l. 2, where Πάτρις, although unattested, would be a dialectally regular short form of compounds like Πατρόφιλος.

On the other hand, if there is enough space to admit Πάτριππος as the father's name, as suggested by Reynolds, then Ἄριστις would be rather short for the son's name and one would suggest some longer name, such as Ἀριστέας or even Ἀρίστιππος.

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