Repository
Cyrene Museum, 3578.
Support
White marble rectangular base with plain mouldings above and below (base 0.68; 0.31;0.52; without mouldings 0.625; 0.14;0.455); later re-used upside down and recut as a basin.
Layout
Inscribed on the face, each line having the same number of letters, which are vertically aligned so as to from a sort of stoichedon.
Letters
0.04 without serifs; beta with slightly larger upper loop, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1956 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : probably East Necropolis (Wadi Graga).
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Dobias-Lalou-Gwaider, 1997 Dobias-Lalou, C., Gwaider, R.A., 1997, From the Cemeteries of Cyrene, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)n.s. 3, 25-29 - see in bibliography , pp. 25-26 n. 1, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2172 and Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., 1997, New funerary incriptions from Cyrene, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)n.s. 3, 31-45 - see in bibliography , p. 36 n. 8. Cf. 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. 202.
Eubatas fils d'Erilokhos.
Eubatas son of Erilochos.
Eubatas figlio di Erilochos.
This is probably the man with the same name mentioned as a commander of the ephebes in IGCyr084000, dated ca. 340 B.C. He might also be the winner at the Olympian games in 408 and 364 known through Pausanias (6.8.3) without his father's name, but this remains hypothetical.
On the name Erilochos, see Dobias-Lalou, 1994 Dobias-Lalou, C., 1994, Le nom cyrénéen ΗΡΙΛΟΧΟΣ ou les qualités d'un bon chef militaire, in D. Conso, N. Fick, B. Poulle (eds.), Mélanges François Kerlouégan, Annales littéraires de l'Université de Besançon515, Paris, 195-203 - see in bibliography . Both names were frequently used in the higher society of Cyrene.
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