Epitaph (?)
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Probably beginning of third century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...] X.49, whence [...], 205 (ph.); [...], 1964.582; [...], p. 303, n. 15, whence [...], 27.1143; [...] 102600.

Διονύσιος Συρακοσίω

Διονύσιος[^a1] Συρακοσίω[^a2]

[^a1: Διονύσιος | Διονύσιος [...]]

[^a2: Συρακοσίω | Συρακόσιος | Συρακόσιος]

Dionysios fils de Syrakosios (?).

Dionysios son of Syrakosios (?).

Dionysios figlio di Syrakosios (?).

The only evidence about the provenance is that the photograph is dated 'Apollonia 1929'. From that, Reynolds ([...], p. 303, n. 15) deduced that the stone was found in the East Church, thus on re-use. However, the Italian excavations and restorations of that building date from 1920-21 and there was no systematic work of theirs on the site in the following years. Moreover, the sketchbook of Oliverio registering this stone mentions at least one find of 1925. As the monument type is clearly funerary (so Pugliese Carratelli for [...], 205), it should rather be a chance find from one of the necropoles, namely the Western one, which was at the time being superseded by the new Italian town of Susah.

Both former editors thought that Συρακόσιος was the ethnic. But there seems to be no space available at l. 1 for a father's name, which Reynolds supposed lost at the end of the line. At [...] first edition, it seemed thus more plausible that we have here a personal name, the father's name of Dionysios, who then would be no foreigner. Reynolds' restoration of a father's name at line 1 would produce an abnormally broad stele.

For this second edition, two further points should be mentioned. First, the stone is perhaps no stele, for it is not thicker below than on top, as funerary steles usually are. If the hole for attachment on top is taken into account, the stone might rather be a tomb-shutter with a supposed width of c. 44 cm. Furthermore, there is another instance in the Harbour of Cyrene of a funerary stele with only personal name and ethnic without father's name, for a Cretan (IGCyr133000).