Support
Rectangular base of reddish marble with a rectangular hollow (0.03) on top (0.41; 0.25;0.40).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.02; careful letters symmetrically spaced.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found by G. Guidi in 1926 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North Necropolis , from tomb N 1 Cassels.
Later recorded Location
Seen by Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Last recorded Location
Seen by J.M. Reynolds before 1997 at the same place.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography , X.43, XII.92, whence 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 , 94, and fig. 73. Cf. Beschi, 1970 Beschi, L., 1970, Divinità funerarie cirenaiche, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)47-48, 133-341 - see in bibliography , p. 204 (date of base); Santucci, 2003 Santucci, A., 2003, Tahuna-Windmill tomb, tomba dei due coniugi, tomba N1: la grande tomba circolare della necropoli nord di Cirene, in Studi in memoria di Lidiano Bacchielli, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)18, 183-204 - see in bibliography , p. 199 (history of the tomb).
Phrason fils de Parmenion.
Phrason son of Parmenion.
Phrason figlio di Parmenion.
The date based on the lettering is corroborated by the rest of the funerary material found in that prestigious tomb N 1 (so-called Windmill Tomb), inside the underground chamber.
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