Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
White marble base, broken in two adjacent fragments, one of which is now lost (0.68; 0.23;0.465; left fragment alone: width 0.40).
Layout
Inscribed on the face (inscribed panel, left fragment: width 0.35; height 0.42) with the beginning of lines on the same vertical axis.
Letters
0.035.
Place of Origin
Date
Second half of the fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1929 probably in the Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia pleiades; HGL .
Later recorded Location
Still complete in 1954 when seen by Fr. Chamoux in Shahat : in front of the ancient Sculpture Museum .
Later recorded Location
Still complete in 1961 when seen by L. Beschi in Shahat : in front of the ancient Sculpture Museum .
Last recorded Location
Left part only seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 in Shahat : inside the new Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors and stone (CDL).
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. 197 (with fig. 51), 204 (date of the base); Reynolds, 1976 Reynolds, J.M., 1976, The Inscriptions of Apollonia, in R.G. Goodchild, J. Griffiths Pedley, D. White, J.H. Humphrey (eds.), Apollonia, the port of Cyrene: excavations by the University of Michigan, 1965-1967, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)Suppl. 4, Tripoli, 293-333 - see in bibliography , p. 322, n. 66, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 27.1150. Cf. Chamoux, 1953 Chamoux, F., 1953, Cyrène sous la monarchie des Battiades, Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome177, Paris - see in bibliography , pl. XIII, 1 (photograph).
Phylysia fille de Bathyklès.
Phylysia daughter of Bathykles.
Phylysia figlia di Bathykles.
The base was before World War II in Apollonia Museum (Susah) and came to Shahat only later. So it was presumably from a tomb in the Port of Cyrene. Upon it stood a mourning half-figure (n. 21 of Beschi's catalogue)
According to Masson, 1976 Masson, O., 1976, Grecs et Libyens en Cyrénaïque, d'après les témoignages de l'épigraphie, Antiquités Africaines10, 49-62 - see in bibliography , p. 62, Φυλυσια should be a Libyan name. But the argument is not very strong and it is possible to propose a Greek origin (see Dobias-Lalou, 2017 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2017, La suffixation des anthroponymes en Cyrénaïque pré-romaine, in A. Alonso Deniz, L. Dubois, C. Le Feuvre, S. Minon, La suffixation des anthroponymes grecs antiques, Genève, 469-492 - see in bibliography , p. 486).
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