Support
White marble base with egg and dart mouldings above and below on three sides and, on top, a hole and channel for attachment; badly broken off at middle of upper moulding and at lower right angle, due to building engines (with mouldings 1.06; 0.64;0.615).
Layout
Inscribed on two lines on front face between the mouldings (0.905; 0.27;0.455).
Letters
0.08; slight serifs, upsilon on the way toward a calice shape, middle-sized loop of rho, omega with wing-shaped serifs.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
First half of 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 B, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2178, B.
Theudôros fils d'Hagèsitratos.
Theudoros son of Hagesistratos.
Theudoros figlio di Hagesistratos.
The base is very similar to IGCyr085800 and both have been found during building works for the new town of Shahat; the first editors thus supposed that they belonged to the same family-tomb.
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