EpiDoc XML:
IGCyr0249002
Trismegistos ID:
105924
Source description
Support: White marble base with double plain mouldings; lower right angle missing (w: 0.80 × h: 0.35 × d: 0.58).
Layout: Inscribed between the mouldings (w: 0.77 × h: 0.125 × d: 0.50).
Letters: 0.04.
Date: Third century BC (lettering).
Findspot: Found by the Norton mission in 1911 at Cyrene ➚: Necropolis, perhaps North Necropolis (Thorn).
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou before 1979 in Shahat: in front of ancient Sculpture Museum. Seen again by C. Dobias-Lalou on September 8th, 2001 in the new Shahat: Cyrene Museum.
Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Robinson 1913, pp. 179-180, n. 55, fig. 37; Oliverio 1933-1936, p. 113, n. 93, fig. 49, whence SEG, 9.205; IGCyr 024900 ➚. Cf. Beschi 1970, p. 204 (date of the base); Thorn – Thorn 2009, p. 138 (probable provenance); Belzic 2022, catalogue B.64.
Text
Apparatus
2: Λύσιος Oliverio 1933-1936: Λυσίο<υ> Robinson 1913
French translation
Epitelès fils de Lysis.
English translation
Epiteles son of Lysis.
Italian translation
Epiteles figlio di Lysis.
Commentary
Robinson had no information about the provenance. This seems to show that the base was found in situ by De Cou in 1911. As the Norton mission does not seem to have explored other parts of the necropoleis, the Thorns supposed that the provenance is the North Necropolis and it is probably so.
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Images
Fig. 1. Face of igcyr024900 Epitaph
Maps
Cyrene general plan
Cyrene north necropolis
