Epitaph

IGCyr087200

Trismegistos ID: 738423

Source Description

Support

Left part of a white marble base with plain moulding on top and bottom of the front and side (whole preserved part 0.41; 0.34;0.55).

Layout

Inscribed in one line of front face between the mouldings (0.34; 0.17;).

Letters

0.5; slantering sigma, flat loop of phi.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second half of fourth to early third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1985 at Cyrene : probably from South Necropolis .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1985 at Cyrene : inside archaeological enclosure North of Caesareum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997 , p. 38 n. 12 (ph.), whence SEG , 47.2188.

Text

Νῖκις Φ[---] 

Apparatus

French translation

Nikis fils de Ph [---] .

English translation

Nikis son of Ph [---] .

Italian translation

Nikis figlio di Ph [---] .

Commentary

As pointed by J.M. Reynolds, no Nikis is up to now known in association with a name beginning with a phi. No restoration of the father's name can thus be suggested.

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