Epitaph

IGCyr102300

Trismegistos ID: 738533

Source Description

Support

White marble stele slightly tapering, chipped off above, where a moulding is probably lost and at the left lower angle of front face (0.42 to 0.465; 1.19;0.275 to 0.36), later reused.

Layout

Inscribed on front face; re-used at back for verse-inscription GVCyr019.

Letters

0.035 to 0.04; no serifs, slanting sigma, open and somewhat smaller omega.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Fourth century B.C.

Findspot

Found before World War II at Cyrene : obviously from some area of the Necropolis .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in Shahat : on the Terrace of the Office of Department of Antiquities .

Present Location

Not found by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

SECir , 194 (ph.); Dobias-Lalou, 1982 , pp. 38-39, whence SEG , 32.1608.

Text

Αἰγλάνωρ Χαιρεσίλα

Apparatus

French translation

Aiglanôr fils de Khairesilas.

English translation

Aiglanor son of Chairesilas.

Italian translation

Aiglanor figlio di Chairesilas.

Commentary

This inscription was published by Pugliese Carratelli from a photograph. The stele is fixed on the Terrace of the Department of Antiquities with the side bearing GVCyr019 visible. Only if one walks around it and catches a propitious light it becomes possible to see the present inscription.

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