Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
White marble base with plain mouldings above and below on three sides (0.61; 0.28;0.35).
Layout
Inscribed in one line on front face (0.535; 0.145;) just under the upper moulding.
Letters
0.032; large alpha, lambda and delta, small omicron, slanting mu.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1938 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : plausibly from an unidentified Necropolis .
Later recorded Location
Seen by Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 in Shahat : in front of the ancient Sculpture Museum .
Later recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 at the same place.
Last recorded Location
Seen again by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 in the courtyard of the new Cyrene Museum .
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 , 180 (no image).
Thalôn fils d'Arkhenomidas.
Thalon son of Archenomidas.
Thalon figlio di Archenomidas.
The base has the typical decoration of funerary bases, with mouldings only on three sides because it was placed against a wall inside the tomb or outside on the attic. We can thus presume that it came from an unidentified area in the Necropolis of Cyrene.
Although both rare, those names are not quite unknown at Cyrene.
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