Support
White marble base with double moulding of eggs and darts, broken off at top right angle (1; 0.55;0.6); square hole on top.
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.06.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of third century B.C. (prosopography, lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1915 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. 117, fig. 73, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.229. 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. 181, and fig. 36, 185-186, 204; 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.
Philon fils de Mnasarkhos.
Philon son of Mnasarchos.
Philon figlio di Mnasarchos.
فيلون بن مناسارخوس
Philon was a member of a the prominent family (for which see 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), whose monumental tomb is well known.
Beschi was able to show that the mourning half-figure 39 of his catalogue stood on this base.
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. This photograph is kept in the archive of the Society for Libyan Studies.
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