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Epitaph

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0853002
Trismegistos ID: 738406

Source description

Support: White marble stele, slightly tapering, with moulding above on three sides (whole stele w: 0.4 × h: 0.98 × d: 0.22).

Layout: Inscribed on front face (w: 0.31-0.335 × h: 0.92 × d: 0.19) at 0.1 under the moulding.

Letters: 0.027-0.03; flat and rather small loop of phi, symmetrical nu, slantering sigma.

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

Findspot: Found before 1978 at Cyrene: probably from North Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 3368. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1997 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Dobias-Lalou – Gwaider 1997, pp. 27-28 n. 4, whence SEG, 47.2175 and also Mohamed – Reynolds 1997, p. 40 n. 19; IGCyr 085300 .

Text

Interpretive

Φράσων
Εὔφριος

Diplomatic

ΦΡΑΣΩΝ
ΕΥΦΡΙΟΣ

French translation

Phrasôn fils d'Euphris.

English translation

Phrason son of Euphris.

Italian translation

Phrason figlio di Euphris.

Commentary

The father's name Euphris is a short form of Euphranor especially common in Cyrenaica.

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Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene north necropolis

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