Dedication or perhaps epitaph

IGCyr106100

Trismegistos ID: 105898

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 542.

Support

Fragmentary white marble circular base, broken off at right, left, back and below; plain moulding above, below which a relief featuring at left a figure carrying a lyre, at right a head with a crested helmet; (0.135; 0.09;unknown).

Layout

Inscribed on top member of the moulding.

Letters

0.013; deeply but not so carefully cut; no serifs, very small loop of rho, widely open upsilon.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Plausibly second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Bought by the Norton mission from an Arab in 1911 and copied by H.F. De Cou at Cyrene with no indication of provenance.

Later recorded Location

Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Last recorded Location

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

Text constituted from

Transciption from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Robinson, 1913 , n. 18, fig. 14; republished by Morelli inSECir , 282 (no image), as unpublished.

Text

[---]  Δημητρίου

Apparatus

French translation

 [---]  de Dèmètrios.

English translation

 [---]  of Demetrios.

Italian translation

 [---]  di Demetrios.

Commentary

In the gap, there was possibly the name of Demetrios' son or daughter, although other possibilities are not excluded.

The relief is too lacunar to choose between a votive and a funerary function for the monument.

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