Support: White marble stele, reddish from earth, with plain moulding on top (w: 0.29 × h: 0.88 × d: 0.25).

Layout: Lines 4 to 9 were probably inscribed first, then lines 10-13 and eventually lines 1-3.

Letters: 0.027-0.03.

Date: End of second or beginning of first century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Copied by J.-R. Pacho at Cyrene ➚ with other epitaphs from the North Necropolis.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚: perhaps North Necropolis.

Last recorded location: Seen by G. Oliverio before 1930 in the mid-level plateau below Cyrene ➚: at Sidi Omran ➚, where it had probably been brought in the meantime. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Praxis fils de P[c. 4 - 6]. Thrasos AS(?) fils de Sosandros, âgé de 70 ans. Autoklès fils d'Aristarkhos. Sôsandros fils d'Autoklès. Praxis fils de Sôsandros. Praxis fils de Néôn. Néôn fils de Néôn.

English translation

Praxis son of P[c. 4 - 6]. Thrasos AS(?) son of Sosandros, 70 years old. Autokles son of Aristarchos. Sosandros son of Autokles. Praxis son of Sosandros. Praxis son of Neon. Neon son of Neon.

Italian translation

Praxis figlio di P[c. 4 - 6]. Thrasos AS(?) figlio di Sosandros, di 70 anni. Autokles figlio di Aristarchos. Sosandros figlio di Autokles. Praxis figlio di Sosandros. Praxis figlio di Neon. Neon figlio di Neon.

Commentary

This stele was inscribed at different times and the latest mentions at lines 1-3 might be of Roman time.

In Fraser – Matthews 1987, all names are registered with date I BC/ I AD, a date which might apply only to ll. 1-3.

Oliverio's idea that a first mention Πρᾶξις Πρά|ξιος was first inscribed on ll. 1-2 with the letters of l. 2 centered, cannot be ascertained from his drawing. Non liquet.

What seems convincing in Oliverio's drawing and reading at line 2 is the name Thrasos at left and perhaps at the end of the line something that would be the beginning of the father's name ending at line 3: Σω[σάν]|δρω, a name that occurs twice again below and might be traditional in the family. However, there remains a senseless ΑΣ in the middle of line 2.

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Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr028700 Family epitaph

Fig. 2. Drawing of igcyr028700 Family epitaph

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