Private honors for a grandson

IGCyr108900

Trismegistos ID: 738618

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.

Support

Re-used from the stone bearing IGCyr108700, which was re-cut at left and turned 90° to right, then 90° to left; the new side became the front face of a white marble base, chipped off at left edge (0.295; 0.06;0.255).

Layout

Inscribed in three lines on front face with axial layout.

Letters

0.015 to 0.02; elegant seriffed letters, theta with short central bar, rho with small loop, large circular letters, non-slanting sigma.

Place of Origin

Cyrene .

Date

Beginning of first century B.C. (lettering, prosopography)

Findspot

Found before 1993 in a votive depot South of Cyrene : in the area of the Wadi el Aish .

Last recorded Location

Seen in 1993 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Mohamed-Reynolds-Dobias-Lalou, 2007 , pp. 38-39, n. 5, whence SEG , 57.2007, B. Cf. Dobias-Lalou, 1998 , pp. 411-412, whence SEG , 48.2059 b.

Text

Ἀ̣κέσανδρον (vac. 1) Θεοχρήστω [Ἀ]κ̣έσανδρος (vac. 1) Τιμάρχω τὸν ἄμναμμον

Apparatus

French translation

Akésandros fils de Timarkhos (a consacré la statue d')Akésandros fils de Théokhrestos son petit-fils.

English translation

Akesandros son of Timarchos (dedicated the statue of) Akesandros son of Theochrestos his grandson.

Italian translation

Akesandros figlio di Timarchos (ha dedicato la statua di) Akesandros figlio di Theochrestos, suo nipote.

Commentary

On the typically Cyrenaean word ἄμναμμος 'grandson', see Dobias-Lalou, 1998 , pp. 411-412.

A Timarchos son of Akesandros, ephebe in year 3/4 A.D. (see IRCyr C.131, ii.40) was probably a descendant of the present dedicant.

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