Probably private honors
IGCyr101700
Trismegistos ID: 738528
Source Description
Support
Marble base with the face damaged when re-used (width 0.77).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
Height unknown.
Place of Origin
Date
Perhaps 360 to 350 B.C. (prosopography)
Findspot
Found by C. Anti between 1925 and 1930 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : re-used for the dressing of the larger basin of the Fountain of Apollo .
Present Location
Not found in 1960 by G. Pugliese Carratelli
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor.
Bibliography
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 , 183 (no image). Cf. Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 103 and 121.
Apparatus
French translation
Mélanippos fils d'Aristandros.
English translation
Melanippos son of Aristandros.
Italian translation
Melanippos figlio di Aristandros.
Commentary
This base was published by Pugliese Carratelli from a drawing and a very succinct description of Anti's papers (without reference to a precise sketchbook).
As it was re-used on the border of the Sanctuary of Apollo, we suppose that the original place of the base was in the Sanctuary. If so, it was honorific and not funerary. In absence of any description of its upper face, this remains only probable.
It is an tantalizing guess of Laronde's to identify this man with the well known homonymous priest whose duty he was able to date about 335 B.C. Without any idea of the lettering, this should remain a hypothesis.
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