Support
White marble base with plain moulding at top and bottom on all four sides (with mouldings 0.735; 0.285;0.49; without mouldings 0.715; 0.125;0.49); the upper left angle is broken off and the front face was severely damaged by a building engine.
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on front face.
Letters
0.02-0.032; very small omicron and theta, slantering sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1979 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : East Necropolis , unidentified tomb.
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. 16 (ph.) and 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 , 47.2192. 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. 202.
1 Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography Ε̣ὔ̣[κ]α̣[ρπ]ος : 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 [---] ος
Eukarpos fils d'Androsthénès.
Eukarpos son of Androsthenes.
Eukarpos figlio di Androsthenes.
An officer about 330 B.C., named Εὔκαρπος Ἀνδροσθένευς at IGCyr015100, gives a clue for the restoration. The lettering is not very different and both mentions should belong to the same man. In this we disagree with J.M. Reynolds, who dated the inscription of the end of the third or the beginning of the second century.
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