Repository
Cyrene Museum, 23.
Support
White marble base with plain mouldings, slightly chipped off; two footprints on top (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on front face between mouldings (0.13; 0.33;).
Letters
0.015, omicron slightly smaller; xi with three horizontal bars without vertical hasta, slanting mu and sigma
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of the fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found at an unknown date at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : purported from Necropolis (see commentary).
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou on April 25th, 1979 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 111, n. 86, fig. 42, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.198. Cf. Beschi, 1970 Beschi, L., 1970, Divinità funerarie cirenaiche, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)47-48, 133-341 - see in bibliography , p. 204 (date of the base); Thorn-Thorn, 2009 Thorn, D.M., Thorn, J.C. (eds.), 2009, A Gazetteer of the Cyrene Necropolis from the original notebooks of John Cassels, Richard Tomlinson and James and Dorothy Thorn, Studia Archaeologica161, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 139.
Xenarista fille de Pratomédès.
Xenarista daughter of Pratomedes.
Xenarista figlia di Pratomedes.
Oliverio (followed by Beschi and the Thorns) said that the base came from a necropolis, but the footprints on top are uncommon for a funerary use. It might rather be private honors.
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