Support
White marble base with plain mouldings, partly broken off (0.90; 0.45;0.61).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.055.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Ca 250 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 found 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. 118, fig. 74, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.230. 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. 35, 185, 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.
Euklès fils de Mnasarkhos.
Eukles son of Mnasarchos.
Eukles figlio di Mnasarchos.
افكليس بن مناسارخوس
Eukles was a member of 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 number 69 of his catalogue stood on this base.
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