Support
Right part of a white marble base with mouldings of eggs and darts on the front at top and bottom, broken off at left (0.54; 0.365;0.41); the right side seems to have been sawn off for re-use, whence the missing moulding on that side and a hole on the upper side might also be related.
Layout
Inscribed on front face (0.40; 0.155; -), symmetrically along the central axis.
Letters
0.03; serifs, upsilon with rather short vertical stroke, sigma moderately slantering.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of third to first half of second 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. 39 n. 15 (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 , 47.2191.
1 Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography [Φιλ]ύτας : 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 [...] ΥΤ[.] ς
2 Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography [...] ξ̣ιμάχω : 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 [...] ιμάχω
[Phil]ytas fils de [---] ximakhos.
[Phil]ytas son of [---] ximachos.
[Phil]ytas figlio di [---] ximachos.
For the father's name both Ζευξίμαχος and Ἀλεξίμαχος would fit the gap that may be also estimated from the average size of such bases. Hence a gap of three letters for the son's name, for which Ναύτας, proposed by the first editors would be too short, whereas Φιλύτας is a typical name of the region.
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