Epitaph
IGCyr117100
Trismegistos ID: 738719
Source Description
Support
Lid of a rock-cut sarcophagus, with an entablature for a half-statue (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the front of the plinth aimed for supporting a half-statue.
Letters
0.10; no serifs.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth or third century B.C. (lettering, context)
Findspot
Found in 2004 by C. Dobias-Lalou at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , West of so-called 'Red Tomb' (see commentary).
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Dobias-Lalou, 2013 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2013, Espace des dieux, espace des hommes, espaces des vivants, espace des morts dans les inscriptions de Cyrénaïque, in A. Inglese, Epigrammata 2. Definire, descrivere, proteggere lo spazio, in ricordo di André Laronde. Atti del convegno di Roma, 26-27 ottobre 2012, Tivoli, 165-195 - see in bibliography , p. 181 and fig. 7.
Apparatus
French translation
Philylla.
English translation
Philylla.
Italian translation
Philylla.
Commentary
About the so-called 'Red Tomb' see commentary at IGCyr007000.
This woman's name, not otherwise attested in Cyrenaica, is akin to Φιλυλλιώ known at Cyrene through IRCyr C.126 and commented by Masson, 1983 Masson, O., 1983, Notes d'anthroponymie grecque, IV. les deux prêtresses Philylliô (Alexandrie et Cyrène), Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh)ser. 3, 57, 185-188 - see in bibliography .
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