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Epitaph

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0253002
Trismegistos ID: 738264

Source description

Support: White marble base with plain mouldings, the upper one slightly chipped (w: 0.50 × h: 0.25 × d: 0.30).

Layout: Inscribed on main face.

Letters: 0.04; slight serifs.

Date: End of third or beginning of second centuries BC (lettering, context).

Findspot: Found at an unknown date at Cyrene: Necropolis, perhaps North Necropolis (Thorn).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors.

Bibliography

Oliverio 1933-1936, p. 113, n. 97, fig. 53, whence SEG, 9.209; IGCyr 025300 . Cf. Beschi 1970, p. 205 (date of the base); Thorn – Thorn 2009, p. 138 (possible provenance); Belzic 2022, catalogue B.80.

Text

Interpretive

Πρᾶτις
Λεντίχω

Diplomatic

ΠΡΑΤΙΣ
ΛΕΝΤΙΧΩ

French translation

Pratis fils de Lentikhos.

English translation

Pratis son of Lentichos.

Italian translation

Pratis figlio di Lentichos.

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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