Epitaph

IGCyr121200

Trismegistos ID: 738761

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.

Support

White marble base, reddish from earth, with plain mouldings on top and below on three sides (0.62; 0.27;0.47).

Layout

Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (0.58; 0.13;0.45).

Letters

0.03; no serifs, slanting sigma, smaller omicron and omega.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Probably third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Seen and copied by L. Cherstich before 2002 at Cyrene : South Necropolis , tomb S8 Cassels (found with its half-figure statue).

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2001 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Thorn-Thorn, 2009 , p. 209 (diplomatic transcription from Cherstich's thesis)

Text

Προκλῆς Στράτωνος

Apparatus

French translation

Proklès fils de Stratôn.

English translation

Prokles son of Straton.

Italian translation

Prokles figlio di Straton.

Commentary

Neither Prokles nor Straton are rare names, the latter being quite common in Cyrenaica. No prosopographical link may be established.

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