<rs type="textType">Honorary inscription</rs> and <rs type="textType">artist's signature</rs> Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica Università di Bologna IGCyr063010 120632 igcyr063010 https://igcyr.unibo.it/igcyr063010

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 Cyrene Museum 345

Pink and blue marble circular base re-used upside down for IGCyr063000 (height 0.31; diameter 0.60).

 Inscribed on vertical side, erased when re-used but for the last two lines. 0.008-0.01; slight serifs. Probably findspot. Between 150 and 109 B.C.

Found in 1936 at Cyrene: in the agora.

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Seen by E. Rosamilia in 2010 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

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Bibliography

, p. 31, n. 11 b (from †Oliverio's papers), whence SEG, 20.725 ; Sammelbuch 10078 ; , n. 9 and fig. 9.

Text αλι Κυραναῖοι Εὐφράνωρ Σωσάρχω Κυραναῖος ἐποίησε.
Apparatus

those lines not mentioned before E. Rosamilia

a été consacré par les Cyrénéens.

Oeuvre d'Euphranôr fils de Sôsarkhos, Cyrénéen.

was dedicated by the Cyrenaeans.

Made by Euphranor son of Sosarchos, a Cyrenaean.

è stata dedicata dai Cirenei.

Opera di Euphranor figlio di Sosarchos, cireneo.

Commentary

From what remains of the formula, we may guess that this was the dedication by the Cyrenaeans of a statue of a Ptolemy or some person of high rank. Those indications were erased, but the artist's signature was kept. However, as the letters were upside down it was of no use for IGCyr063000. This makes plausible that the statue itself was also re-used. Anyway the lettering of the signature is not much older than that of the later use, which provides a terminus ante quem.

We know of the date and place of discovery through , p.153 . It is not quite sure that for this first use the stone already stood in the agora.