EpiDoc XML:
IGCyr0082602
Trismegistos ID:
738188
Source description
Support: Two adjacent fragments of a large marble base with mouldings of egg and dart on top and below and a hole for attachment on the upper face, broken off long since (dimensions from Laronde's sketch of fragment b, which preserves the whole width at rear: w: 1.16 × h: 0.68 × d: 0.86).
Layout: Inscribed on front face between the mouldings (fragment a w: 0.715 × h: 0.355); symmetrically laid out along vertical axis.
Letters: ca. 0.05; serifs; slanting sigma
Date: First half of third century BC (lettering).
Findspot: Fragment b copied by J.-R. Pacho in 1825 at Cyrene ➚.Fragment b on a copy made probably by Padre Pacifico in 1827 at Cyrene ➚ and later on in possession of P. Negri.
Place of origin: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Fragment b seen by H.F. De Cou in 1911 (photograph available at http://www.newpaltzwebworks.com/norton-inscriptions/40.jpg). Fragment b seen by J. Cassels in 1954 at Cyrene ➚, South Necropolis, tomb S1. Fragment b seen and copied by A. Laronde (at undefined date) in situ. Both fragments found by O. Menozzi in 2009 at South Necropolis, in the courtyard of tomb S1.
Text constituted from: Transcription from previous partial editions and recent photographs.
Bibliography
Part b: CIG 5169 (Franz) (part), from Pacho 1827, pl. 65, 2 and copy by [Negri], Sardinian consul in Tripoli (n. 6); SGDI 4864 (Blass); Cassels 1955, p. 34, tomb S1; IGCyr 008260 ➚; part a: unpublished before IGCyr 008260 ➚.
Cf. Dobias-Lalou 2020, pp. 316-317, n. 3 and fig. 3a-b; , catalogue B.19.
Text
French translation
Philôn fils de Damis.
English translation
Philon son of Damis.
Italian translation
Philon figlio di Damis.
Arabic translation
فيلون بن داميوس
Commentary
Although having got from both origins two different copies, Franz (followed by Blass) brought together this inscription and IGCyr0082502, just because they seemed to bear the same names, which in fact are both very frequent at Cyrene and there is no need to consider both bases as one and the same. Moreover, there is no clue that they belong to the same tomb.
We know since Cassels that fragment b was to be seen in the courtyard of tomb S1. Excavations conducted in 2009 by O. Menozzi and the archaeological mission of the University of Chieti in that tomb brought to light fragment a.
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