Private honors

IGCyr010300

Trismegistos ID: 105915

Source Description

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 : exact findspot unknown.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Robinson, 1913 , n. 46a, fig. 33, whence Sammelbuch 5893; Laronde, 1987 , p. 123, footnote 55.

Text

[------]   Πολυκλε̣[ῦς]

Apparatus

2 Robinson, 1913  Πολυκλ[έους]

French translation

(Untel fils)de Polykles.

English translation

(So-and-so son) of Polykles.

Italian translation

(Il tale figlio) di Polykles.

Commentary

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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