Epitaph
IGCyr105500
Trismegistos ID: 738579
Source Description
Support
Two adjacent fragments of a white marble base with mouldings on top and below both broken off (0.68; 0.25;0.49).
Layout
Inscribed in one line on front face (0.68; 0.155;0.49).
Letters
0.033; slightly slanting mu, rather large circular letters, disymmetrical nu, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1960 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the North Necropolis .
Later recorded Location
Seen in 1960 by D. Morelli in situ.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in situ, broken into two pieces, below tomb N 397 Cassels.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Morelli in SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 269 (no image).
Apparatus
French translation
Mégô fille de Nikis.
English translation
Mego daughter of Nikis.
Italian translation
Megò figlia di Nikis.
Commentary
As Morelli did not mention that the base was broken, it was perhaps still complete in 1960. In 1982, when C. Dobias-Lalou saw it, it was broken, perhaps after having rolled down in the Necropolis to the exact place where she saw it.
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