Support
Base of unknown material with plain mouldings (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
Height unknown; from Pacho's drawing, non-slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Third to second centuries B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Copied by J.-R. Pacho in 1825 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Present Location
Not found by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor.
CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5155, from Pacho, 1827 Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography , pl. 65, 4 and [Negri] Sardinian consul in Tripoli; SGDI Bechtel, F., Baunack, J., et al., Collitz, H. (ed.), Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, III.2, Göttingen, 1905 - see in bibliography 4864 (Blass).
Harpalea fille de Kleuthemis.
Harpalea daughter of Kleuthemis.
Harpalea figlia di Kleuthemis.
أربيليا ابنة كليوثيموس
We consider this base as funerary with two arguments: 1. In Pacho's time bases were to be seen mainly in the necropoleis; 2. this type of base is more usual for epitaphs that for honors.
The woman's name Ἁρπαλέα has the koine and not the dialectal form of its second element, which would be -λᾶ.
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