Perhaps epitaph

IGCyr121500

Trismegistos ID: 738764

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.

Support

White marble base, with egg and dart mouldings on top, broken off below (0.64; 0.19;0.32).

Layout

Inscribed on the face, probably in 2 lines (0.61; 0.10;).

Letters

0.07; serifs, carefully cut, phi with a quite big loop.

Place of Origin

Cyrene : probably in an unidentified Necropolis .

Date

Second half of third or first half of second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1979 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

Φίλων [------]  

Apparatus

French translation

Philôn (fils de)  [---] .

English translation

Philon (son of)  [---] .

Italian translation

Philon (figlio di)  [---] .

Commentary

This base is presumably a funerary one, although it was impossible to check its upper side. Most bases collected lately in the Museum come from tombs around the town of Cyrene.

Philon is one of the most common names in Cyrene; without his father's name, it is impossible to try to relate him to any already known person.

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