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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Epitaph

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0859002
Trismegistos ID: 738411

Source description

Support: White marble base with egg and dart mouldings above and below on three sides and, on top, a hole and channel for attachment; badly broken off at middle of upper moulding and at lower right angle, due to building engines (with mouldings w: 1.06 × h: 0.64 × d: 0.615).

Layout: Inscribed on two lines on front face between the mouldings (w: 0.905 × h: 0.27 × d: 0.455).

Letters: 0.08; slight serifs, upsilon on the way toward a calice shape, middle-sized loop of rho, omega with wing-shaped serifs.

Date: First half of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1979 at Cyrene: probably from South Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 at Cyrene: inside archaeological enclosure North of Caesareum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Mohamed – Reynolds 1997, p. 33 n. 2 B, whence SEG, 47.2178, B; IGCyr 085900 .

Cf. Belzic 2022, catalogue B.56.

Text

Interpretive

Θεύδωρος
Ἁγησιστράτ[ω]

Diplomatic

ΘΕΥΔΩΡΟΣ
ΑΓΗΣΙΣΤΡΑΤ[.]

French translation

Theudôros fils d'Hagèsitratos.

English translation

Theudoros son of Hagesistratos.

Italian translation

Theudoros figlio di Hagesistratos.

Commentary

The base is very similar to IGCyr0858002 and both have been found during building works for the new town of Shahat; the first editors thus supposed that they belonged to the same family-tomb.

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Maps

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