Epitaph

IGCyr114400

Trismegistos ID: 738696

Source Description

Support

Marble base with mοulding of egg and dart at top (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed on front face.

Letters

Dimensions unknown and shapes unknown.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

First seen by J. Cassels in 1954 at Cyrene : East Necropolis , at a distance of 100 m. north-west of tomb E1 to which it should have belonged.

Present Location

Not found by the Thorns nor seen by IGCyr team

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 148; Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique , 2010.634.

Text

Δ̣ρομιάδας [Ἀ]ριστοφάνου[ς]

Apparatus

1 Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique  Δ̣ρομιάδας : Thorn-Thorn, 2009  ΩΡΟΜΙΑΔΑΣ (Cassels' Grey Book) : Thorn-Thorn, 2009  ΑΡΟΜΙΑΔΑΣ (Cassels' Yellow Book)

French translation

Dromiadas fils d'Aristophanès.

English translation

Dromiadas son of Aristophanes.

Italian translation

Dromiadas figlio di Aristophanes.

Commentary

Known only from two copies in block-letters by Cassels (1954), fortunately published by the Thorns, this base was dated by the former. At line 2 a genitive with the koine ending would rather lead to the lower date, but this is not absolutely sure.

At line 1 our reading seems to be a good compromise between the two successive copies of Cassels'.

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