Repository
Cyrene Museum, no inv. number.
Support
White marble rectangular base with plain mouldings at top and bottom on three sides, (with mouldings0.51; 0.26;0.36); a channel for attachment was cut into the upper side.
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on front face (0.465; 0.14;0.325).
Letters
0.03; light serifs, phi with flattened loop, sigma with parallel outer strokes, omega slightly smaller than the other letters.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1995 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : plausibly South Necropolis (see commentary).
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1997 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 , p. 38 n. 13, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2189. 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.
Philônidas fils d'Antiphilos.
Philonidas son of Antiphilos.
Philonidas figlio di Antiphilos.
The findspot was reported by 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. 38 n. 13 as follows: «beside a tomb on the old Cyrene-Balagrae (Shahat-Beida) road, about 1 km west of the extra-mural sanctuary of Demeter, still carrying a three-quarter figure of a mourning woman» (also repeated by the Thorns: 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). It must be remembered that at the time the only known part of the extra-mural sanctuary was the area excavated by the American mission (so-called Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore), which is the Western part of the Southern Extra-Mural Sacred Zone as known since 2000. '1 km west' of it would be in the West Necropolis. So 'west' should be a mistake for 'east' and, as the Necropolis does not begin in correspondance with the sanctuary, the findspot should be sought more to the south, beside the road.
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