Epitaph

IGCyr121600

Trismegistos ID: 738765

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.

Support

White marble base, with plain mouldings on top and below, broken off at right (0.68; 0.30;0.535).

Layout

Inscribed in one line on the face (0.61; 0.12;0.485).

Letters

0.032; no serifs, smaller theta and omicron, slanting mu and sigma.

Place of Origin

Cyrene : plausibly from an unidentified Necropolis .

Date

Second half of fourth century B.C. (lettering, prosopography)

Findspot

Found before 1979 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 and again in 1997 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Never published before.

Text

Θέαρος Ἑρμησάνδρ[ω]

Apparatus

French translation

Théaros fils d'Hermésandros.

English translation

Thearos son of Hermesandros.

Italian translation

Thearos figlio di Hermesandros.

Commentary

This man might be the father of Hermesandros son of Thearos, strategos about 330 B.C. (IGCyr017100), and perhaps the grandfather of a son of Thearos, mentionned in IGCyr014800, b.18.

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