Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
White marble base with plain mouldings above and below on three sides (0.49; 0.355;0.315).
Layout
Inscribed on front, between the mouldings (0.405; 0.08;0.28).
Letters
0.022; slightly apicated.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found on April 26th, 1911, Norton expedition, bought from an Arab, at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : probably Necropolis .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou on May 20th, 1982 in Shahat : outside Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , n. 66, without illustration, whence Sammelbuch Preisigke, F. et al. (eds.), Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, Strassburg/Wiesbaden1915- - see in bibliography 5909; again SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 279 (Morelli) as unpublished, without illustration. Cf. Masson, 1967 Masson, O., 1967, Remarques sur deux inscriptions de Cyrène et de Théra, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh)ser. 3, 41, 225-231 - see in bibliography , p. 225, footnote 3.
Arkhias fils de Laokles.
Archias son of Laokles.
Archias figlio di Laokles.
Masson pointed out early that Morelli had unduly thought this inscription to be unpublished.
This base, which was «brought to camp» (Robinson from De Cou's notebooks), may have been found in anyone of the tombs around Cyrene.
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