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Epitaph

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1067002
Trismegistos ID: 6555

Source description

Support: Ashes-urn made of black-glazed terracotta with vertical grooves crossed by a smooth horizontal zone at middle height; decorated with four similar figurines of Amazones in relief (height 0.42).

Layout: Scratched on the shoulder, on front side.

Letters: 0.011; rather irregular, deeply cut.

Date: Third century BC (monument type).

Findspot: Bought in Alexandria from trade in 1911 and said to come from Cyrenaica: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Cyrenaica (?).

Last recorded location: Graeco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, 18835. Described by E. Breccia in 1911 at Alexandria, Egypt: Graeco-Roman Museum. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Breccia 1911, pp. 125-126, n.228; Sammelbuch 650; IGCyr 106700 .

Text

Interpretive

Ἀριστόδημος Διονυσίου

Diplomatic

ΑΡΙΣΤΟΔΗΜΟΣΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ

French translation

Aristodèmos fils de Dionysios.

English translation

Aristodemos son of Dionysios.

Italian translation

Aristodemos figlio di Dionysios.

Commentary

As such funerary urns are unusual in Cyrenaica and common at Alexandria, the purported Cyrenaican origin is rather doubtful.

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