Epitaph

IGCyr097050

Trismegistos ID: 738484

Source Description

Support

Rectangular base of reddish marble with a rectangular hollow (0.03) on top (0.41; 0.25;0.40).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.02; careful letters symmetrically spaced.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

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

Findspot

Found by G. Guidi in 1926 at Cyrene : North Necropolis , from tomb N 1 Cassels.

Later recorded Location

Seen by Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Last recorded Location

Seen by J.M. Reynolds before 1997 at the same place.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editors.

Bibliography

Oliverio, Taccuini inediti , X.43, XII.92, whence SECir , 94, and fig. 73. Cf. Beschi, 1970 , p. 204 (date of base); Santucci, 2003 , p. 199 (history of the tomb).

Text

Φράσων Παρμενίωνος

Apparatus

French translation

Phrason fils de Parmenion.

English translation

Phrason son of Parmenion.

Italian translation

Phrason figlio di Parmenion.

Commentary

The date based on the lettering is corroborated by the rest of the funerary material found in that prestigious tomb N 1 (so-called Windmill Tomb), inside the underground chamber.

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