Epitaph

IGCyr120700

Trismegistos ID: 738756

Source Description

Support

White marble base, reddish from earth, with mouldings of egg and dart on top and below on three sides (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed in two lines on the face betwen the mouldings.

Letters

Dimensions unknown; slight serifs, smaller omicron, calice shaped upsilon, phi with small and flattened loop.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps end of third or beginning of second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 2000 by L. Cherstich at Cyrene : South Necropolis , tomb S66 Cassels.

Last recorded Location

Excavated and photographed by the Chieti Mission before 2013, in situ.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous mention and photograph (CDL).

Bibliography

Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 221 (mention from Cherstich's unpublished thesis); Belzic, 2015 , n. 30.

Text

Ἴασ̣ις̣ Εὔφριος

Apparatus

1 Ἴασ̣ις̣ : Thorn-Thorn, 2009  [..] Α[..] 

French translation

Iasis fils d'Euphris.

English translation

Iasis son fo Euphris.

Italian translation

Iasis figlio di Euphris.

Commentary

Both names are common in Cyrenaica.

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