Support: White marble base, reddish from earth, with plain mouldings on top and below, which are slighlty chipped off (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on face, spaces between letters varying in order to fill the whole width at each line.

Letters: Dimensions unknown; smaller omicron, slanting mu and sigma.

Date: Between 320 and 300 BC (lettering, prosopography).

Findspot: Found by Cherstich in 2007 at Cyrene ➚: South Necropolis, between tombs S219-220 and S285.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Photographed by the Chieti mission in 2011 in situ in the South Necropolis. Not seen by the IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from the Chieti documentation (CDL).

French translation

Pratomèdès fils de Philippos.

English translation

Pratomedes son of Philippos.

Italian translation

Pratomedes figlio di Philippos.

Commentary

The findspot is a tomb surveyed by Cherstich in 2007 and not previously registered by Cassels, in the South necropolis.

With this base, we now know the burial place of a man of high rank: commander of cavalry about 345 BC (IGCyr084000², l. 13), he is mentioned both as ephoros and nomothetes in the diagramma of Ptolemy in 320 (IGCyr010800², ll. 83 and 86). He may have died at the latest about 300 BC, but probably nearer to 320 BC.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr120800 Epitaph

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