Repository
Cyrene Museum, 3002.
Support
Small white marble rectangular base with plain mouldings above and below on three sides (0.41; 0.15;0.245).
Layout
Inscribed on one line between the mouldings (0.37; 0.065;0.225).
Letters
0.023; all vertical strokes very long, small loop of rho, flat loop of phi, sigma with slantering and lightly curved outer strokes, calice-shaped upsilon, smaller omicron.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Brought to the Department of Antiquities in 1956 as coming from 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 , p. 27 n. 3 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2174. 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 (provenance).
Polyaratos fils d'Euphris.
Polyaratos son of Euphris.
Polyaratos figlio di Euphris.
The father's name Euphris is a short form of Euphranor especially common in Cyrenaica.
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