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Epitaph

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1328002
Trismegistos ID: 738875

Source description

Support: Low base of white marble with mouldings, broken off at left and right (w: 0.50 × h: 0.22).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.035

Date: Presumably second half of fourth of first half of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Copied by Fr. Chamoux in 1947 at Cyrene: re-used in front of the tomb where IGCyr0780002 is located, on the left bank of the Wadi Bel Ghadir, that is in the West Necropolis, tomb W107 Cassels.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from Chamoux's copy (CDL).

Bibliography

Not published before IGCyr 132800 .

Cf. Belzic 2022, catalogue B.17.

Text

Interpretive

[---]ων Ὑακίνθ[ω]

Diplomatic

[---]ΩΝΥΑΚΙΝΘ[.]

French translation

[---]ôn fils de Hyakinthos.

English translation

[---]on son of Hyakinthos.

Italian translation

[---]on figlio di Hyakinthos.

Commentary

This base is known only from a transcription in Chamoux's unpublished notebook. The tomb has been carefully explored by S. Farag and J.M. Reynolds in 1970. As they do not mention this base, it had probably been moved or broken off between Chamoux's visit in 1947 and their own exploration in 1970.

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