Epitaph

IGCyr087600

Trismegistos ID: 738427

Source Description

Support

White marble base with plain moulding at top and bottom on all four sides (with mouldings 0.735; 0.285;0.49; without mouldings 0.715; 0.125;0.49); the upper left angle is broken off and the front face was severely damaged by a building engine.

Layout

Inscribed in two lines on front face.

Letters

0.02-0.032; very small omicron and theta, slantering sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1979 at Cyrene : East Necropolis , unidentified tomb.

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. 16 (ph.) and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique , 1999.623), whence SEG , 47.2192. Cf. Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 202.

Text

Ε̣ὔ̣[κ]α̣[ρπ]ος Ἀνδροσθένευς

Apparatus

1 Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique  Ε̣ὔ̣[κ]α̣[ρπ]ος : Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997  [---] ος

French translation

Eukarpos fils d'Androsthénès.

English translation

Eukarpos son of Androsthenes.

Italian translation

Eukarpos figlio di Androsthenes.

Commentary

An officer about 330 B.C., named Εὔκαρπος Ἀνδροσθένευς at IGCyr015100, gives a clue for the restoration. The lettering is not very different and both mentions should belong to the same man. In this we disagree with J.M. Reynolds, who dated the inscription of the end of the third or the beginning of the second century.

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