Support
Two adjacent fragments of a large marble base with mouldings of egg and dart on top and below and a hole for attachment on the upper face, broken off long since; fragment a preserves the whole width at rear (dimensions from Laronde's sketch of fragment b: 1.16; 0.68;0.86).
Layout
Inscribed on front face between the mouldings (fragment a 0.715; 0.355;); symmetrically laid out along vertical axis.
Letters
ca. 0.05; serifs; slanting sigma
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
First half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Fragment b copied by J.-R. Pacho in 1825 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL .
Findspot
Fragment b copied by P. Negri in 1827 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL .
Later recorded Location
Fragment b seen by H.F. De Cou in 1911 (photograph available at http://www.newpaltzwebworks.com/norton-inscriptions/40.jpg).
Later recorded Location
Fragment b seen by J. Cassels in 1954 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL , South Necropolis , tomb S1.
Later recorded Location
Fragment b seen and copied by A. Laronde (at undefined date) in situ.
Last recorded Location
Both fragments found by O. Menozzi in 2009 at South Necropolis , in the courtyard of tomb S1.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous partial editions and recent photographs.
Part b: 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, 2 and copy by [Negri], Sardinian consul in Tripoli (n. 6); SGDI Bechtel, F., Baunack, J., et al., Collitz, H. (ed.), Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, III.2, Göttingen, 1905 - see in bibliography 4864 (Blass); Cassels, 1955 Cassels, J., 1955, The cemeteries of Cyrene, Papers of the British School at Rome (PBSR)23, 1-43 - see in bibliography , p. 34, tomb S1; part a not previously published.
Philôn 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 IGCyr008250, just because they seemed to bear the same names, which in fact are both very frequent at Cyrene and there is no need to consider both bases as one and the same. Moreover, there is no clue that they belong to the same tomb.
We know since Cassels that fragment b was to be seen in the courtyard of tomb S1. Excavations conducted in 2009 by O. Menozzi and the archaeological mission of the University of Chieti in that tomb brought to light fragment a.
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