Epitaph

IGCyr096960

Trismegistos ID: 738482

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 607.

Support

White marble tapering stele with plain moulding above on three sides, covered with reddish sediment, somewhat chipped off on all sides (0.275 to 0.29; 0.86;0.205 to 0.21).

Layout

Inscribed on front face (0.255; 0.79;) at 0.15 under moulding; IRCyr C.729 on the right side, IRCyr C.730 on the left side.

Letters

0.03, slanting mu, calice-shaped upsilon, large and open omega.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1935 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene : plausibly from a Necropolis .

Later recorded Location

Seen in 1960 by Pugliese Carratelli in Shahat : on the terrace of the ancient Cyrene Museum .

Last recorded Location

Seen in 2010 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

SECir , 90 a (no image).

Text

Τιμάνωρ Πολυβώλω

Apparatus

French translation

Timanôr fils de Polybôlos.

English translation

Timanor son of Polybolos.

Italian translation

Timanor figlio di Polybolos.

Commentary

The stone comes evidently from a Necropolis, although we do not know which one. It has been re-used twice on other sides.

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