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C.740. Funerary inscription

Description: Lower part of a damaged limestone stele (w: 0.23 x h: 0.24 x d: 0.11). Above the text is a sunken panel, containing a wreath in relief with pendent ribbons.
Text: Inscribed on one face, within an incised panel (w: 0.11 x h: 0.07).
Letters: 0.01; lunate epsilon, lunate sigma, cursive omega, a leaf at the end of line 3.

Date: First - third century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: findspot unrecorded; found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

Ἰσικ[ρ]α̣[τ]η̣ϲ
Ἱστιαίου ἐ-
τῶν π´ ((leaf))

Diplomatic

ΙΣΙΚ[.].[.].Ϲ
ΙΣΤΙΑΙΟΥΕ
ΤΩΝΠ

Apparatus

1: Νεικ[ία]ϲ Ἐπ/ιϲτράτου jmr; or perhaps [Π]ιϲικ[ρ τ]ηϲ (for Πεισι-) cdl

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Isikrates (scil. son) of Histiaios, aged 80

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography:
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds VI.45)

   Fig. 2. From left: C.743, C.740 and C.769 (right side)