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 pleiades; HGL : 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 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., 1997, New funerary incriptions from Cyrene, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)n.s. 3, 31-45 - see in bibliography , p. 39 n. 17 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2193.
Apparatus
French translation
Hermaios fils d'Aiskhriôn.
English translation
Hermaios son of Aischrion.
Italian translation
Hermaios figlio di Aischrion.
Commentary
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