Epitaph

IGCyr135000

Trismegistos ID: 749388

Source Description

Support

White marble base with plain mouldings on top and below (dimensions estimated from photograph 0.31; 0.63; -), reddish from earth; broken off at the lower right angle.

Layout

Inscribed in one line on the front, below the upper moulding.

Letters

Estimated 0.024 (smaller omicron); not deeply, but carefully cut with small serifs; slightering mu and sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot

Date

Probably second half of fourth century B.C. (lettering, context)

Findspot

Brought to the Department of Antiquities in August 2017; presumably found during the same year at Cyrene : in one undetermined Necropolis during building works.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team. Studied by C. Dobias-Lalou through photographs taken in the Department of Antiquities when the stone was presented.

Text constituted from

Transcription from photograph (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

Τιμὼι Τιμοκλεῦς

Apparatus

French translation

Timô fille de Timoklès.

English translation

Timo daughter of Timocles.

Italian translation

Timò figlia di Timokles.

Commentary

This base, known to us only through photographs, is very similar to the one bearing IGCyr122000, i.e. a plain type of funerary bases, the dimensions of which are approximately 2 x 1 cubits.

The feminine name Timo is attested in Cyrenaica only as the by-name of a priestess of Artemis in the Roman imperial period (IRCyrC.222). However such names ending with -ώι are frequent in the region and this one is derived from the father's name. For the latter, two men bearing the name Timocles are known, one in the fourth century BC (IGCyr0081200), the other at the beginning of the third century (IGCyr065210). One or the other might be related with Timo, but we cannot push the hypothesis further ahead.

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