Support: White marble base with plain moulding at top and bottom on all four sides (with mouldings w: 0.735 × h: 0.285 × d: 0.49; without mouldings w: 0.715 × h: 0.125 × d: 0.49); the upper left angle is broken off and the front face was severely damaged by a building engine.

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on front face.

Letters: 0.02-0.032; very small omicron and theta, slantering sigma.

Date: Second half of fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1979 at Cyrene ➚: East Necropolis, unidentified tomb.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 at Cyrene ➚: inside archaeological enclosure North of Caesareum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Eukarpos fils d'Androsthénès.

English translation

Eukarpos son of Androsthenes.

Italian translation

Eukarpos figlio di Androsthenes.

Commentary

An officer about 330 BC, named Εὔκαρπος Ἀνδροσθένευς at IGCyr015100², gives a clue for the restoration. The lettering is not very different and both mentions should belong to the same man. In this we disagree with J.M. Reynolds, who dated the inscription of the end of the third or the beginning of the second century.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr087600 Epitaph

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