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Epitaph

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0860002
Trismegistos ID: 738412

Source description

Support: White marble tapered stele with a plain moulding on top (w: 0.397 to 0.44 × h: 1.285 × d: 0.271 to 0.325).

Layout: Written at least 0.20 under the moulding.

Letters: 0.027-0.03; very finely cut and aligned.

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

Findspot: Found before 1995 at Cyrene: probably from South Necropolis (see commentary).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors.

Bibliography

Mohamed – Reynolds 1997, pp. 33-34 n. 3 A (cf. Dobias-Lalou, BE, 1999.623), whence SEG, 47.2179, A; IGCyr 086000 .

Text

Interpretive

Ἀριστοτέλης
Βασιλοκρέοντος

Diplomatic

ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΗΣ
ΒΑΣΙΛΟΚΡΕΟΝΤΟΣ

French translation

Aristotélès fils de Basilokréôn.

English translation

Aristoteles son of Basilokreon.

Italian translation

Aristoteles figlio di Basilokreon.

Commentary

Found in the same tomb as IGCyr0861002; although there is no common element in the onomastics, both deceased were probably of the same family.

About the tomb of provenance see commentary at IGcyr0861002.

About the name Βασιλοκρέων, see Dobias-Lalou, BE, 1999.623.

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