Epitaph

IGCyr105700

Trismegistos ID: 738582

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, not found.

Support

White marble base reddish from earth, with plain mouldings above and below, the lower one chipped off (0.86; 0.25;0.57).

Layout

Inscribed on front face between the mouldings (0.78; 0.15;), in two lines centred along vertical axis.

Letters

0.035; rho and phi with small loop, the latter flattened, non-slanting sigma, slightly smaller omicron.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second half of third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1960 at Cyrene : from one Necropolis .

Later recorded Location

Seen in 1960 by D. Morelli in Shahat : outside the ancient Sculpture Museum .

Last recorded Location

Seen in 1993 by C. Dobias-Lalou inside the new Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CL).

Bibliography

Morelli in SECir , 272 (ph.).

Text

Φερὼι Σεμηρος

Apparatus

French translation

Pherôi fille de Semèr.

English translation

Pheroi daughter of Semer.

Italian translation

Pheròi figlia di Semer.

Commentary

Whereas the daughter's name is an unicum, yet pertains to a very common type of Greek feminine shortnames in -ώι, the father has a name of Libyan origin (see Masson, 1976 , p. 59).

One Semer is the father of a military officer in IGCyr094400, dated in the second half of the fourth century.

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