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Epitaph

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0274002
Trismegistos ID: 738280

Source description

Support: White marble base with plain mouldings, partly broken off (w: 0.90 × h: 0.45 × d: 0.61).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.055.

Date: Ca 250 BC (prosopography, lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1915 at Cyrene: North Necropolis, tomb of the Mnesarchoi (tomb N 171 Cassels).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by L. Beschi in 1961 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors.

Bibliography

Oliverio 1933-1936, p. 117, n. 118, fig. 74, whence SEG, 9.230; IGCyr 027400 . Cf. Beschi 1970, pp. 181, and fig. 35, 185, 204; Laronde 1987, pp. 52-58, whence SEG, 38.1892; Belzic 2022, catalogue B.7.

Text

Interpretive

Εὐκλῆς
Μνασάρχω

Diplomatic

ΕΥΚΛΗΣ
ΜΝΑΣΑΡΧΩ

French translation

Euklès fils de Mnasarkhos.

English translation

Eukles son of Mnasarchos.

Italian translation

Eukles figlio di Mnasarchos.

Arabic translation

افكليس بن مناسارخوس

Commentary

Eukles was a member of the prominent family (for which see Laronde 1987, pp. 52-58), whose monumental tomb is well known.

Beschi was able to show that the mourning half-figure number 69 of his catalogue stood on this base.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene north necropolis

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