Support
White marble base with mouldings above and below, worked on three sides (-; -;0.38).
Layout
Inscribed between the mouldings (0.45; 0.29;).
Letters
0.03.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth to third centuries B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1911, Norton Expedition, at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : bought from an Arab, 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. 49, without illustration, whence Sammelbuch Preisigke, F. et al. (eds.), Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, Strassburg/Wiesbaden1915- - see in bibliography 5897.
Theukhrestos fils de Sôgénès.
Theuchrestos son of Sogenes.
Theuchrestos figlio di Sogenes.
ثيوخريستوس ابن سوجينيس.
From details given by Robinson (from De Cou's papers), such as a roughly worked back and no mention of a hole on top, it is possible to infer that the base is rather funerary than dedicatory.
The date is proposed e.g., from De Cou's normalized copy.
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