Dedication (?) by Mnastokles
IGCyr018500
Trismegistos ID: 106094
Source Description
Support
Rectangular limestone block, recut for later use (1.08; 0.39;0.49); a hole on top might be later than the original use.
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.085.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of fourth century B.C. (lettering, prosopography)
Findspot
Found in 1928 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : reused in the Temple of Hekate .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1983 by C. Dobias-Lalou in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1930 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography , p. 205, n. 28, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.91. Cf. Lazzarini, 1996 Lazzarini, M.L., 1996, SEG, IX, 50: una revisione alla luce di vecchi e nuovi frammenti, in L. Bacchielli, M. Bonanno Aravantinos (eds.), Scritti di Antichità in memoria di Sandro Stucchi, I, Studi Miscellanei29, Roma, 175-192 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 46.2198.
Apparatus
French translation
[Mna]stoklès fils de Bathy[klès].
English translation
[Mna]stokles son of Bathy[kles].
Italian translation
[Mna]stokles figlio di Bathy[kles].
Commentary
Although re-used, the stone might have been placed originally in the sanctuary of Apollo and be part of a dedication, rather than of an epitaph.
This man might be identified with the military officer listed in IGCyr084000, l. 2.
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