Epitaph

IGCyr087500

Trismegistos ID: 738426

Source Description

Support

Right part of a white marble base with mouldings of eggs and darts on the front at top and bottom, broken off at left (0.54; 0.365;0.41); the right side seems to have been sawn off for re-use, whence the missing moulding on that side and a hole on the upper side might also be related.

Layout

Inscribed on front face (0.40; 0.155; -), symmetrically along the central axis.

Letters

0.03; serifs, upsilon with rather short vertical stroke, sigma moderately slantering.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second half of third to first half of second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1979 at Cyrene : probably from South Necropolis .

Last recorded Location

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

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997 , p. 39 n. 15 (cf. Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique , 1999.623), whence SEG , 47.2191.

Text

[Φιλ]ύτας [...] ξ̣ιμάχω

Apparatus

1 Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique  [Φιλ]ύτας : Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997  [...] ΥΤ[.] ς

2 Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique  [...] ξ̣ιμάχω : Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997  [...] ιμάχω

French translation

[Phil]ytas fils de  [---] ximakhos.

English translation

[Phil]ytas son of  [---] ximachos.

Italian translation

[Phil]ytas figlio di  [---] ximachos.

Commentary

For the father's name both Ζευξίμαχος and Ἀλεξίμαχος would fit the gap that may be also estimated from the average size of such bases. Hence a gap of three letters for the son's name, for which Ναύτας, proposed by the first editors would be too short, whereas Φιλύτας is a typical name of the region.

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