Epitaph

IGCyr106700

Trismegistos ID: 6555

Source Description

Repository

Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, 18835.

Support

Ashes-urn made of black-glazed terracotta with vertical grooves crossed by a smooth horizontal zone at middle height; decorated with four similar figurines of Amazones in relief (height 0.42).

Layout

Scratched on the shoulder, on front side.

Letters

0.011; rather irregular, deeply cut.

Place of Origin

Cyrenaica .

Date

Third century B.C. (monument-type)

Findspot

Bought in Alexandria from trade in 1911 and said to come from Cyrenaica: exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Described by E. Breccia in 1911 at Alexandria, Egypt: Graeco-Roman Museum .

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Breccia, 1911 , pp. 125-126, n.228; Sammelbuch 650.

Text

Ἀριστόδημος Διονυσίου

Apparatus

French translation

Aristodèmos fils de Dionysios.

English translation

Aristodemos son of Dionysios.

Italian translation

Aristodemos figlio di Dionysios.

Commentary

As such funerary urns are unusual in Cyrenaica and common at Alexandria, the purported Cyrenaican origin is rather doubtless.

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