EpiDoc XML:
IGCyr0278002
Trismegistos ID:
738282
Source description
Support: Marble base with mouldings of eggs and darts above and below (w: 0.72 × h: 0.42 × d: 0.40).
Layout: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.04; very slight serifs.
Date: End of third or beginning of second century BC (lettering).
Findspot: Found at an unknown date at Cyrene ➚: North Necropolis, tomb N 173, to the right of the entrance.
Place of origin: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Not found by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors.
Bibliography
Oliverio 1933-1936, p. 118, n. 122, fig. 78a, whence SEG, 9.234; IGCyr 027800 ➚. Cf. Cassels 1955, p. 21; Beschi 1970, pp. 199, 204 (date of the base); Thorn – Thorn 2009, p. 69 (Cassels' notebook); Santucci – Reynolds 2010, pp. 279-280 and fig. 4a (location); Belzic 2022, catalogue B.11 (corresponding half-statue).
Text
French translation
Satyros fils de Protarkhos.
English translation
Satyros son of Protarchos.
Italian translation
Satyros figlio di Protarchos.
Commentary
Satyros son of Protarchos should have been the first to be buried in that tomb. The original funerary half-figure was later substituted by a stele for a deceased veteran (IRCyr2020 C.573).
The name Satyros has here its only occurrence in Cyrenaica. The father's name is non-dialectal, both for the ending of genitive in -ου and for the first member of the compound Πρωτ(ο)- instead of dialectal Πρατ(ο)-. As no ethnic is given, he might have been a Cyrenaen with foreign connections.
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Images
Fig. 1. Face of igcyr027800 Epitaph
Maps
Cyrene general plan
Cyrene north necropolis
