Support
Base with double mouldings, not otherwise described, material unknown (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on front face between the mouldings.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second or first century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
First copied by J.-R. Pacho in 1825 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Last recorded Location
Copied by P. Negri in 1827.
Present Location
Not found.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor.
CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5169 (Franz) (part), 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, copy (n. 21); SGDI Bechtel, F., Baunack, J., et al., Collitz, H. (ed.), Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, III.2, Göttingen, 1905 - see in bibliography 4864 (Blass).
Philon fils de Damis.
Philon son of Damis.
Philon figlio di Damis.
فيلون بن داميوس
Although having got from both origins two different copies, Franz (followed by Blass) brought together this inscription and IGCyr008260, only because they offer the same names. However they were presented on Pacho's table in separate groups. In fact, both names Philon and Damis are very frequent at Cyrene. There was no reason to bring them together.
In fact, recent excavations by the mission of the University of Chieti, to be soon published, give new insights. Whereas IGCyr008260 has been found again and located in a precise tomb, no trace of this base has been found there. So we may conclude that it had been seen by Pacho at another place of one of Cyrene's necropoleis.
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