Repository
Cyrene Museum, 234.
Support
White marble base with plain moulding above and below, broken off at left back, chipped off at right and at upper moulding (now lost); the front face is peeling, especially below so that probably two lines are now lost (0.665; 0.24;0.42).
Layout
Inscribed on front face (0.655; 0.13;).
Letters
0.02; dotted theta, slanting mu and sigma, symmetrical nu, rho with small loop, slightly smaller circular letters.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Late fourth or early third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : plausibly from one Necropolis .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 and in 1982 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Dobias-Lalou-Gwaider, 1997 Dobias-Lalou, C., Gwaider, R.A., 1997, From the Cemeteries of Cyrene, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)n.s. 3, 25-29 - see in bibliography , pp. 25-29, n. 2 (with photograph), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2173. Cf. CEG Hansen, P.A. (ed.), Carmina epigraphica Graeca, I-II, Berlin, 1983-1989 - see in bibliography , n. 682 (when not yet published), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 39.1723.
3 Dobias-Lalou-Gwaider, 1997 Dobias-Lalou, C., Gwaider, R.A., 1997, From the Cemeteries of Cyrene, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)n.s. 3, 25-29 - see in bibliography Α̣Ι : CEG Hansen, P.A. (ed.), Carmina epigraphica Graeca, I-II, Berlin, 1983-1989 - see in bibliography +Ι
Philôn a fait faire cette (base) pour son épouse Arkhô comme souvenir de sa valeur [---] .
Philon laid down this (base) for his wife Archo as a record of her virtue [---] .
Philon pose questa (base) per sua moglie Archò in memoria della sua virtù [---] .
The poetic word συνόμευνος is a super-compound based upon two compounds in literary texts: σύνευνος and ὅμευνος.
Metrical analysis: the poem was made of one hexameter at text-lines 1-2, followed probably by a pentameter (or another hexameter) now lost at text-lines 3-4.
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