Support
White marble base with egg and dart mouldings on three sides above and below; on top circular hole and channel for attachment; broken off at upper left angle (whole base 0.8; 0.335;0.555).
Layout
Inscribed in one line on front face (0.75; 0.11;0.48), near the upper moulding.
Letters
0.03.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1995 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : probably from South Necropolis .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 and again in 1985 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : inside archaeological enclosure North of Caesareum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
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 , pp. 32-33 n. 1 B, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2177, B. 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. 266.
1 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 [Τ]έλων (the upper bar is clear and a gamma should be excluded on prosopographical ground, see IGCyr085700) .
Télôn fils d'Andrias.
Telon son of Andrias.
Telon figlio di Andrias.
This base comes from the same tomb, unrecorded by Cassels, as IGCyr085500 and IGCyr085700 and was found during construction works in the new town of Shahat.
Andrias the father, might be the man mentioned in IGCyr085500 and Telon the father of Anaxippos mentioned in IGCyr085700.
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