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Epitaph

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0248002
Trismegistos ID: 738260

Source description

Support: White marble base with plain mouldings (w: 0.45 × h: 0.35 × d: 0.35).

Layout: Inscribed on front face under the upper moulding.

Letters: 0.04

Date: Third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found at an unknown date at Cyrene: Necropolis (Oliverio); perhaps North Necropolis (Thorn).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Oliverio 1933-1936, p. 113, n. 92, fig. 48 , whence SEG, 9.204; IGCyr 024800 . Cf. Beschi 1970, p. 204 (date of the base); Thorn – Thorn 2009, p. 139 (possible provenance); Belzic 2022, catalogue B.84.

Text

Interpretive

Τελεσὼι
Σωσ̣ία

Diplomatic

ΤΕΛΕΣΩΙ
ΣΩ.ΙΑ

French translation

Telesô fille de Sosias.

English translation

Teleso daughter of Sosias.

Italian translation

Telesò figlia di Sosias.

Commentary

Teleso might be sister of Philon (IGCyr0247002): both bases, published together and very similar, should come from the same tomb.

The Thorns' probable attribution to the North Necropolis is due to the fact that the Italian archaeologists before World War II were mainly interested in this one.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene north necropolis

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