Repository
Cyrene Museum, 346.
Support
Slightly tapering limestone stele with a moulding below the upper edge, broken in two adjacent pieces, with the front face in poor condition (0.355 to 0.37; 1.08;0.14 to 0.16).
Layout
Inscribed on front face at about 0.15 under the moulding; each line cut symmetrically along vertical axis.
Letters
0.035 to 0.04; slight serifs, large circular letters, moderately slanting mu and sigma, phi with large vertical stroke and flattened loop.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of fourth or first half of third century B.C.
Findspot
Found before 1935 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene pleiades; HGL , plausibly from a Necropolis .
Later recorded Location
Seen in 1960 by Pugliese Carratelli in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1977 by C. Dobias-Lalou at the same place.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 92 (photo).
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SECir
Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography
Φιλόδ̣αμος
2
SECir
Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography
Σατ̣ύρου
3
SECir
Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography
Ἀ̣χ̣αιός
Philodamos fils de Satyros, achéen.
Philodamos son of Satyros, an Achaean.
Philodamos figlio di Satyros, acheo.
Although Oliverio's photograph does not show the stone in a better condition than that of 1977, his readings were validated by Pugliese Carratelli (SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 92), who saw the stone in 1960. We thus accept their readings for the father's name (a quite common name in Achaia) and the ethnic.
The ethnic 'Achaean' supposes a terminus post quem in 280 B.C.
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