Epitaph

IGCyr123900

Trismegistos ID: 738788

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 2007.

Support

White marble slighlty tapering stele with plain moulding on top, broken off obliquely under the inscription and chipped off at both upper angles (0.325; 0.32;0.15).

Layout

Inscribed in two lines on the shaft (0.325; 0.295;0.13).

Letters

0.32, no serifs; slantering mu and sigma, dissymmetrical nu.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Probably first half of fourth century. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 2004 (and probably after 1948) at Cyrene : presumably in an undetermined Necropolis .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2004 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

Καλλίμαχος Στράτωνος

Apparatus

French translation

Kallimakhos fils de Stratôn.

English translation

Kallimachos son of Straton.

Italian translation

Kallimachos figlio di Straton.

Commentary

Both names are very common at Cyrene and no prosopographical relation can be suggested.

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