Epitaph
IGCyr121400
Trismegistos ID: 738763
Source Description
Support
White marble base, with plain mouldings on top and below originally on three sides, cut off on the right side and chipped off at left (0.58; 0.29;0.52).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines running on the whole width on the face, between the mouldings (0.58; 0.13;0.50).
Letters
0.035; very slight serifs, slanting sigma, smaller omicron.
Place of Origin
Cyrene pleiades; HGL , probably East Necropolis .
Date
Third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found at an unknown date before 2004 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : probably in the East Church , where it lays in the baptistery.
Last recorded Location
Seen and copied by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2004 at the same place.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Not previously published.
Apparatus
French translation
Télésandros fils de Tabalbis.
English translation
Telesandros son of Tabalbis.
Italian translation
Telesandros figlio di Tabalbis.
Commentary
This is the third occurrence of the Libyan name Tabalbis (cf. IGCyr011400; IGCyr077100).
Like for other funerary inscriptions found in the East Church, it was plausibly brought there from a near part of the Necropolis, either Eastern of Southern.
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