Epitaph
created: Transcription from previous partial editions and recent photographs.
source date: First half of third century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Part b: [...] 5169 (Franz) (part), from [...], pl. 65, 2 and copy by [Negri], Sardinian consul in Tripoli (n. 6); [...] 4864 (Blass); [...], p. 34, tomb S1; [...] 008260; part a: unpublished before [...] 008260.

Cf. [...], pp. 316-317, n. 3 and fig. 3a-b; [...], catalogue B.19.

Φίλων Δάμιος

Philôn fils de Damis.

Philon son of Damis.

Philon figlio di Damis.

فيلون بن داميوس

Although having got from both origins two different copies, Franz (followed by Blass) brought together this inscription and IGCyr008250, just because they seemed to bear the same names, which in fact are both very frequent at Cyrene and there is no need to consider both bases as one and the same. Moreover, there is no clue that they belong to the same tomb.

We know since Cassels that fragment b was to be seen in the courtyard of tomb S1. Excavations conducted in 2009 by O. Menozzi and the archaeological mission of the University of Chieti in that tomb brought to light fragment a.