Support
White marble base with double mouldings of eggs and darts, partly chipped off (0.94; 0.44;0.65).
Layout
Inscribed between the mouldings.
Letters
0.07.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Ca. 250 B.C. (prosopography, lettering)
Findspot
Found at an unknown date at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis, tomb of the Mnesarchoi (tomb N 171 Cassels)
Last recorded Location
Seen by L. Beschi in 1961 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 117, n. 116, fig. 72, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.228. 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 , pp. 182, 186, 204; Applebaum, 1979 Applebaum, S., 1979, Jews and Greeks in Ancient Cyrene, Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity28, Leiden - see in bibliography , p. 40, n. 220, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 29.1673; Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 52-58, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 38.1892.
Theukhrestos fils de Mnasarkhos.
Theuchrestos son of Mnasarchos.
Theuchrestos figlio di Mnasarchos.
ثيوخريستوس بن مناسارخوس
Theukhrestos was a member of a prominent family, whose monumental tomb is well known.
Beschi suspected that the mourning half-figure standing upon this base was number 26 of his catalogue.
Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 116, footnote 1, explained that he could only give drawings of the bases from Mnasarkhoi tomb and would publish the photographs in the next issue, but this never happened. The photograph of the view is part of a larger photograph showing the discovey of the bases, displayed in front of tomb N171, with help of Italian soldiers in 1915-1916. All bases are now kept inside the tomb in a side room with restricted access. The photograph is kept in the archive of the Society for Libyan Studies.
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