Epitaph
IGCyr122900
Trismegistos ID: 738778
Source Description
Support
Rock-cut tomb with eight loculi, (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the lintel over loculus 8 with the last three letters extending beyond the surround.
Letters
Height unknown; no description of the lettering.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Presumably Hellenistic. (context)
Findspot
Copied by J. Thorn in 2002 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , in the area of tomb N362 Cassels, terrace 3 (Thorn).
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous mention (CDL).
Bibliography
Thorn-Thorn, 2009 Thorn, D.M., Thorn, J.C. (eds.), 2009, A Gazetteer of the Cyrene Necropolis from the original notebooks of John Cassels, Richard Tomlinson and James and Dorothy Thorn, Studia Archaeologica161, Roma - see in bibliography , pp. 118-119 (no image).
Apparatus
French translation
Képhaliôn fils de Kaphisodôros.
English translation
Kephalion son of Kaphisodoros.
Italian translation
Kephalion figlio di Kaphisodoros.
Commentary
We suppose this inscription to date from the Hellenistic period. Kephalion is already attested in Cyrenaica and other names deriving from that of the river Kaphisos are already attested too. This one is a compound in -δωρος, of which we have many examples that may be explained by the fact that rivers were considered deities. It means 'gift of the Kaphisos'.
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