Plausibly an epitaph

IGCyr106610

Trismegistos ID: 738590

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 139.

Support

Limestone block, broken at right and back (0.43; 0.63;0.48).

Layout

Inscribed in two lines on front face, apparently without any loss of text in the broken part.

Letters

0.045 (xi) to 0.07 (rho); deeply cut without serifs; alpha with low bar, slanting mu, tall rho with large loop, slanting sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Plausibly fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1960 at Cyrene : plausibly from one Necropolis .

Later recorded Location

Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in Shahat : 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 , 293 (no image).

Text

Τίμαρ-χος

Apparatus

French translation

Timarkhos.

English translation

Timarchos.

Italian translation

Timarchos.

Commentary

This man's name without father's name on a rough stone is more plausibly an epitaph than a honorific mention.

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