Epitaph

IGCyr118700

Trismegistos ID: 738735

Source Description

Support

Limestone sarcophagus with double slope lid surmounted by a platform for a half-statue (wide 0.95; long 2.26).

Layout

Inscribed on the Southern slope of the lid below the platform; awkward layout of the line that begins too high, lowers along the platform and raises again after it (long 1.42).

Letters

Height unknown; no characteristic letter.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Probably third or second century B.C. (context, lettering)

Findspot

Found by Mrs Rowe in 1957 at Cyrene : North Necropolis , courtyard 81, sarcophagus AI.

Last recorded Location

Seen by the Thorns before 2005 in situ.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editors (CDL).

Bibliography

Rowe, 1959 , p. 9 and fig. XIV (localisation); Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p.49. Cf. Belzic, 2015 , vol. 2, pl. XXIb (Thorn's unpublished drawing).

Text

Αἰδῶχος

Apparatus

1 Rowe, 1959  ΑΙΔΩΧΟΣ : Belzic, 2015  ΑΙΔΩΧΟΝ (from Thorn's drawing)

French translation

Aidôkhos.

English translation

Aidochos.

Italian translation

Aidochos.

Arabic translation

أيدوخوس

Commentary

Rowe's simple mention in capitals was duly registered in Fraser-Matthews, 1987 , p. 18, obviously upon J.M. Reynolds' advice.

The name Αἰδῶχος, although rare, is known in its koine form Αἰδοῦχος for a Cnidian at Miletus in the third century B.C.

Names on sarcophagi and other funerary inscriptions are always at the nominative case and so is it in Rowe's transcription. The final nu in Thorn's drawing should be either a slip of the pen or the result of the stone becoming illegible.

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