Support
White marble stele with simple moulding at top, broken below (1.35; 0.17-;0.05).
Layout
Inscribed.
Letters
0.0075; thin well cut letters; should date before the adoption of the standard alphabet.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Before the end of the fifth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Bought by H.F. De Cou from an Arab on March 26th, 1911 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Necropolis .
Present Location
Seems to be lost.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor.
Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , p. 164, n. 17 (without illustration), whence Sammelbuch Preisigke, F. et al. (eds.), Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, Strassburg/Wiesbaden1915- - see in bibliography 5875; DGE Schwyzer, E., Dialectorum Graecarum exempla epigraphica potiora, Leipzig, 1923 - see in bibliography 231,1.
Aristeas fils d'Arimnastos.
Aristeas son of Arimnastos.
Aristeas figlio di Arimnastos.
أريستيس بن أريمناستوس.
Width 1.35 is given by Robinson, from De Cou's notes. It seems improbable, such grave steles being rather ca. 0.55 broad. It should be an error for height.
From the copy in block-letters, it is difficult to judge of the date. If the last letter is really an omicron, the inscription could still belong to the end of V B.C.
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