Epitaph

IGCyr102400

Trismegistos ID: 738534

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, no inv. number.

Support

Large white marble base with double mouldings of eggs and darts on all four sides, chipped on back (0.99; 0.595;0.65).

Layout

Inscribed on front face between the mouldings (0.83; 0.255;).

Letters

0.045-0.06; small serifs; smaller circular letters, xi with central hasta and small intermediate bar, slanting sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

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

Findspot

Found on September 8th, 1934 at Cyrene : South Necropolis , near a tomb situated between S10 and S11 Cassels, still supporting a half-statue.

Last recorded Location

Seen in 1997 by C. Dobias-Lalou 1997 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

SECir , 195 (photo). Cf. Beschi, 1970 , pp. 197-198 (discovery) and p. 204 (date of base); Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 210 (provenance).

Text

Θεύχρηστος Ἀναψύξιος

Apparatus

French translation

Theukhrestos fils d'Anapsyxis.

English translation

Theuchrestos son of Anapsyxis.

Italian translation

Theuchrestos figlio di Anapsyxis.

Commentary

This inscription was published by Pugliese Carratelli from a photograph only.

Beschi, who observed the stone for his catalogue of funerary bases, would place it about the middle of III B.C. However, the lettering seems somewhat older.

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