Epitaph

IGCyr123700

Trismegistos ID: 738786

Source Description

Support

White marble slightly tapering stele, with plain double moulding on top on all four sides, broken off at lower left angle (alltogether 0.365; 1.08;0.315; under moulding 0.325; 1.02;0.27; below width 0.365).

Layout

Inscribed on the face at 0.16 under the moulding.

Letters

0.027, no serifs; slantering sigma, slightly smaller circular letters.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

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

Findspot

Found before 1979 at Cyrene : from an undetermined Necropolis .

Last recorded Location

Observed by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat , inside the archaeological enclosure, north of the Caesareum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

Πειθαγόρας Ἰάσονος

Apparatus

French translation

Peithagoras fils d'Iasôn.

English translation

Peithagoras son of Iason.

Italian translation

Peithagoras figlio di Iason.

Commentary

Iason was a very common name at Cyrene, Peithagoras has also some occurrences. No prosopographical relation can be suggested.

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