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 pleiades; HGL : 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 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , n. 51, whence Sammelbuch Preisigke, F. et al. (eds.), Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, Strassburg/Wiesbaden1915- - see in bibliography 5899; Cassels, 1955 Cassels, J., 1955, The cemeteries of Cyrene, Papers of the British School at Rome (PBSR)23, 1-43 - see in bibliography , p. 19 and pl. X.d.
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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