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Epitaph

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0261002
Trismegistos ID: 738270

Source description

Support: Marble base with plain mouldings, surface eroded, mouldings slightly chipped (w: 0.52 × h: 0.35 × d: 0.41).

Layout: Inscribed on front face.

Letters: 0.05.

Date: Second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1933 at Cyrene: Necropolis (Oliverio); possibly North Necropolis (Thorn).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Oliverio 1933-1936, p. 115, n. 105, fig. 61, whence SEG, 9.217; IGCyr 026100 . Cf. Thorn – Thorn 2009, p. 139 (possible location); Belzic 2022, catalogue B.83.

Text

Interpretive

Σπουδίας
Στεφανίτα

Diplomatic

ΣΠΟΥΔΙΑΣ
ΣΤΕΦΑΝΙΤΑ

French translation

Spoudias fils de Stéphanitas.

English translation

Spoudias son of Stephanitas.

Italian translation

Spoudias figlio di Stephanitas.

Commentary

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

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene north necropolis

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