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 Cyrene Museum no inv. number

Large white marble base with double mouldings of eggs and darts on all four sides, chipped on back ( 0.99 0.595 0.65 ).

 Inscribed on front face between the mouldings ( 0.83 0.255 ). 0.045-0.06; small serifs; smaller circular letters, xi with central hasta and small intermediate bar, slanting sigma. Findspot. End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C.

Found on September 8th, 1934 at Cyrene: South Necropolis, near a tomb situated between S10 and S11 Cassels, still supporting a half-statue.

Seen in 1997 by C. Dobias-Lalou 1997 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

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Bibliography

SECir, 195 (photo). Cf. , pp. 197-198 (discovery) and p. 204 (date of base); , p. 210 (provenance).

Text Θεύχρηστος Ἀναψύξιος
Apparatus

Theukhrestos fils d'Anapsyxis.

Theuchrestos son of Anapsyxis.

Theuchrestos figlio di Anapsyxis.

Commentary

This inscription was published by Pugliese Carratelli from a photograph only.

Beschi, who observed the stone for his catalogue of funerary bases, would place it about the middle of III B.C. However, the lettering seems somewhat older.