Epitaph

IGCyr094500

Trismegistos ID: 105921

Source Description

Support

Plain rock-cut tomb with one door (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed over the door.

Letters

0.16; narrow letters deeply and somewhat awkwardly cut, close one to another; rho with nearly no tail, alpha much larger.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Fourth century B.C.

Findspot

Found by H.F. De Cou (Norton mission) at Cyrene : North Necropolis , tomb N385 Cassels.

Last recorded Location

Seen and photographed by J. Cassels in 1955, in situ.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editors.

Bibliography

Robinson, 1913 , n. 51, whence Sammelbuch 5899; Cassels, 1955 , p. 19 and pl. X.d.

Text

Εὐρυπυλίδα

Apparatus

French translation

(Tombe d') Eurypylidas.

English translation

(Tomb of) Eurypylidas.

Italian translation

(Tomba di) Eurypylidas.

Commentary

The inscription was never visible to C. Dobias-Lalou.

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