Epitaph
IGCyr106200
Trismegistos ID: 105917
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, unknown.
Support
White marble tapering stele with plain moulding above on three sides, broken off at the right angle of the moulding (0.375; 0.97;0.235).
Layout
inscribed at 0.35 under the moulding on front face (0.34 to 0.375; 0.87;0.185 to 0.21). .
Letters
0.027; no serifs, slightly tapering mu, moderatly smaller omicron, rho with large loop, slanting sigma, calice-shaped upsilon, large omega.
Place of Origin
Cyrene pleiades; HGL : plausibly from one Necropolis .
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found by the Norton mission in 1911 on the Northern Acropolis .
Later recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat : outside the ancient Sculpture Museum .
Last recorded Location
Seen again in 1997 by C. Dobias-Lalou in the courtyard of the new Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , n. 47 (ph.); republished by Morelli, 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e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 284 (no image), as unpublished. Cf. Masson, 1967 Masson, O., 1967, Remarques sur deux inscriptions de Cyrène et de Théra, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh)ser. 3, 41, 225-231 - see in bibliography , p. 225, footnote 3 and Marengo, 1985 Marengo, S.M., 1985, Note di epigrafia cirenaica: edizioni ripetute, Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Macerata (AFLM)18, 145-162 - see in bibliography .
Apparatus
French translation
Euagoras fils d'Amômètos
English translation
Euagoras son of Amometos.
Italian translation
Euagoras figlio di Amometos.
Commentary
Ths stone, said to have been found «face down on Northern Acropolis» ( Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , n. 47), belongs evidently to the series of funerary steles. It is thus plausible that it had been brought there either from the Northern or from the Western Necropolis for a re-use.
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