Support
Fragmentary white marble base with mouldings (0.85-; 0.59-;0.33); broken away at right and above, chipped everywhere; re-used on opposite side in Roman time for IRCyr C.781.
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.035.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Third to second centuries B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1911, Norton Expedition, at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unknown.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
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 , n. 46a, fig. 33, whence Sammelbuch Preisigke, F. et al. (eds.), Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, Strassburg/Wiesbaden1915- - see in bibliography 5893; Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 123, footnote 55.
2 Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography Πολυκλ[έους]
(Untel fils)de Polykles.
(So-and-so son) of Polykles.
(Il tale figlio) di Polykles.
Although very much damaged, the stone is clearly the lower part of a base, keeping only the second line with a patronym. Its description reads «top hollowed», which is a clue for a honorific rather than funerary base. As it was «bought from an Arab», its findspot may be any place at Cyrene.
The date is too vague and men named Polykles too many to allow a precise prosopographical identification ( pace Laronde).
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