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Epitaph of Deinis

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0842002
Trismegistos ID: 738396

Source description

Support: Two adjacent fragments of a white marble base with plain mouldings, broken at top; rough at the back; (with mouldings w: 0.89 × h: 0.32; without mouldings w: 0.815 × h: 0.132).

Layout: Inscribed on the face between the mouldings.

Letters: 0.02-0.032, well cut letters; epsilon with short middle stroke, omicron smaller than the other letters, four-strokes sigma, open omega.

Date: Ca. 250 BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1972 at Cyrene: South Necropolis, tomb S381A Cassels, in the small atrium leading to the funerary rooms.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen in 1972 by Gasperini in situ, in the South Necropolis. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Bacchielli 1996, p. 28, whence SEG, 46.2210; IGCyr 084200 .

Cf. Gasperini 1998, pp. 277-279 (=Gasperini – Arnaldi – Marengo 2008, p. 418) and Dobias-Lalou, BE, 1999.622; Belzic 2022, catalogue B.31.

Text

Interpretive

Δεῖνις Εὐρυφῶνος

Diplomatic

ΔΕΙΝΙΣΕΥΡΥΦΩΝΟΣ

French translation

Deinis fils d'Euryphon.

English translation

Deinis son of Euryphon.

Italian translation

Deinis figlio di Euryphon.

Commentary

The base should have supported a half-statue of the funerary goddess.

For the tomb, see Thorn 2006, p. 342 and fig. 217.

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