Epitaph

IGCyr105900

Trismegistos ID: 738585

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.

Support

White marble tapering stele with one plain moulding above on three sides (0.47; 1.165;0.295).

Layout

Inscribed on front face in two lines.

Letters

0.033; symmetrical nu, slanting sigma, widely open upsilon and omega.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

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

Findspot

Found before 1960 at Cyrene : plausibly from one Necropolis .

Later recorded Location

Seen in 1960 by D. Morelli in Shahat : in front of the Casa Parisi , which is part of the Cyrene Museum .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 at the same place.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Morelli in SECir , 280 (no image).

Text

Ἀστυκλῆς Νικαίω

Apparatus

French translation

Astyklès fils de Nikaios.

English translation

Astykles son of Nikaios.

Italian translation

Astykles figlio di Nikaios.

Commentary

This stele had been brought to the garden of Casa Parisi before 1960. It was probably not found before World War II, but brought there for protection in post-war times, when Goodchild was in charge of the Deparment of Antiquities.

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