Support
White marble lightly tapering stele, broken on top and below (0.44 to 0.45; -;0.26 to 0.28).
Layout
Inscribed on front face, about 0.18 under the broken off top.
Letters
0.026; rho with small loop, sigma nearly not slantering.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of third to first half of second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found about 1980 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : South Necropolis (see commentary).
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1985 in 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. 34-35 n. 4 A (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 , 47.2180, A.
Astyklès fils de Barkaios.
Astykles son of Barkaios.
Astykles figlio di Barkaios.
The stele, collected about 1980 from the South Necropolis, is thought by Mohamed and Reynolds to come from the tomb where a rock-cut cut inscription (IGCyr008100) mentions a Βαρκαῖος Ἀστυκλεῦς. If so, the lettering of the stele seems to be somewhat older than that on the wall.
From the same tomb are also IGCyr086400 and IGCyr086500.
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