Epitaph of a Cretan
IGCyr133000
Trismegistos ID: 738877
Source Description
Repository
Apollonia Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
Plain stele of white marble, slightly slantering, chipped off at left lower angle (0.305 to 0.355; 1.01;0.215 to 0.24).
Layout
Inscribed at 0.11 from the upper edge in three lines with spaces between letters varying so that they cover the whole width of the stele.
Letters
0.015 to 0.021; very careful lettering; alpha with rather low bar, epsilon with shorter middle bar, dotted theta, slightly dissymmetrical nu, smaller omicron and omega, slantering sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found between 2001 and 2004 in the Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia pleiades; HGL : probably from the West Necropolis .
Later recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou and A. Laronde in 2004 at Sūsah : in the courtyard of the ancient Apollonia Museum .
Last recorded Location
Seen by J.M. Reynolds and photographed by H. Walda in 2008 at the same place.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Not previously published.
Apparatus
French translation
Zôilos, crétois d'Eleutherna.
English translation
Zoilos, a Cretan from Eleutherna.
Italian translation
Zoilos, cretese da Eleutherna.
Commentary
The absence of a father's name is puzzling. However, as the ethnic of Eleutherna is mentioned, there is no reason to suppose that the dead was no citizen.
Important building works took place during the first decade of the twenty-first century West of the ancient city of Apollonia and many tombs of the ancient necropolis were accidentally destroid. It is highly plausible that the stele was found at such an occasion.
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