Support
White marble base with egg and dart mouldings above and below on three sides, chipped off on both mouldings, especially below; on top, hole and channel for attachment (with mouldings 1.135; 0.63;0.69).
Layout
Inscribed on two lines on front face (0.945; 0.25;0.63).
Letters
0.075; slight serifs, very flat loop of phi, upsilon on the way toward a calice shape.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
First half of the third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1979 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : probably from South Necropolis .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 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 , p. 33 n. 2 A, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2178, A.
Antiphilos fils d'Eukleidas.
Antiphilos son of Eukleidas.
Antiphilos figlio di Eukleidas.
The base is very similar to IGCyr085900 and both have been found during building works for the new town of Shahat; on that basis, the first editors supposed that they belonged to the same family-tomb in the South necropolis.
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