Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
White marble base with mouldings of egg and dart above and below, chipped and broken off at right end of front face (0.75; 0.44;0.57).
Layout
Inscribed on front face in two lines with letters spaced symmetrically along vertical axis.
Letters
0.04; finely cut and ; very light serifs; rather small loop of pi, smaller omicron.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of fourth to first half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : probably from South Necropolis ; found in the courtyard of a large rock-cut tomb probably near the group of tombs S 250-260 Cassels («near the modern cemetery of Sidi Mohamed Baggiuda»).
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2004 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
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. 33-34 n. 3 B (ph.) (cf. Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 1999.623), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2179, B.
Pratomèdès fils d'Agônis.
Pratomedes son of Agonis.
Pratomedes figlio di Agonis.
Found in the same tomb as IGCyr086000; although there is no common element in the onomastics, both deceased were probably of the same family.
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