Epitaph

IGCyr087700

Trismegistos ID: 738428

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 3474.

Support

White marble base with plain mouldings at top and bottom on three sides, both mouldings chipped off, the lower one more severely; a dowel hole in the centre of the upper side (0.51; 0.20;0.45).

Layout

Inscribed in one line on the face (0.45; 0.075;0.41), the letters being smaller and more crowded at the end of the line.

Letters

0.03; slantering mu and sigma, rather small omicron and omega,rather small loop of rho.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps, second half of fourth or first half of third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1995 at Cyrene : North Necropolis , beside the Road: Cyrene to Apollonia .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1997 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997 , p. 39 n. 17 (ph.), whence SEG , 47.2193.

Text

Ἑρμαῖος Αἰσχρίωνος

Apparatus

French translation

Hermaios fils d'Aiskhriôn.

English translation

Hermaios son of Aischrion.

Italian translation

Hermaios figlio di Aischrion.

Commentary

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