Epitaph

IGCyr121800

Trismegistos ID: 738767

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; broken off at right lower angle and scratched on the face by the mechanical engine that unearthed it (0.71; 0.21;0.475).

Layout

Inscribed in one line on the face (0.665; 0.0.12;0.455).

Letters

0.025 to 0.03; no serifs, slanting mu and sigma, slightly smaller circular letters.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Probably first half of third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1997 at Cyrene : plausibly from one undetermined Necropolis .

Last recorded Location

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

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

Κλεὼ Δαμασάνορος

Apparatus

French translation

Kléô fille de Damasanôr.

English translation

Kleo daughter of Damasanor.

Italian translation

Kleò figlia di Damasanor.

Commentary

Damasanor is a well consituted Greek name. Yet it is rare and attested only three times at Cyrene. The two other occurrences belong to lists of military officers of the fourth century (IGCyr094400) and earlier (IGCyr014700). So a family link is probable but cannot be more precisely defined because of the gap in time. For Kleo, a classical woman's name, this is the only occurrence in Cyrenacia proper, yet two Cyrenaican women of that name are known at Alexandria in the Hellenistic period.

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