Support: White marble tapering stele, chipped at top and broken off (or cut off ?) at the right upper angle; a wreath is sculpted high on front face (w: 0.36 to 0.42 × h: 1.25 × d: 0.27-0.32).

Layout: L. 2 is inscribed in the middle of the wreath (diameter 0.14) and wholly inside it at line 2, while l. 1 has its first letter beyond the limits of the wreath.

Letters: 0.02-0.025.

Date: End of fourth or beginning of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1933 at Cyrene ➚: Necropolis (Oliverio); perhaps from North Necropolis (Thorn).

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1997 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Epigenes fils d'Eubatas.

English translation

Epigenes son of Eubatas.

Italian translation

Epigenes figlio di Eubatas.

Commentary

The same man might be the honorand of IGCyr065700².

The Torns' suggestion that the stele might come from the North Necropolis is based upon the idea that Italian excavations before World War II took place only in that Necropolis.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr025000 Epitaph

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