Repository
Museum of Libya, Tripoli, inv. number unknown.
Support
Right part of a white marble base with plain mouldings above and below, originally on three sides (0.43; 0.26;0.39).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on front face.
Letters
0.035; very slight serifs, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Presumably found at Cyrene pleiades; HGL in an unknown area of the Necropolis and erroneously kept at Tripoli after the movings of World War II.
Later recorded Location
Seen by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 at Tripoli: Museum of Libya .
Last recorded Location
Observed by A. Laronde in the years 1980 in the same Museum.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor and Laronde's archive (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 , 188 (no image). Cf. Fraser-Matthews, 1987 Fraser, P.M., Matthews, E. (eds.), 1987, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, I: The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, Cyrenaica, Oxford - see in bibliography , p. 64.
2 [Ἀρί]σ̣τιος : Fraser-Matthews, 1987 Fraser, P.M., Matthews, E. (eds.), 1987, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, I: The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, Cyrenaica, Oxford - see in bibliography [Ἀρί]σ̣τιος : 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 [---] σ̣τιος
[---] kleia fille d'Aristis.
[---] kleia daughter of Aristis.
[---] kleia figlia di Aristis.
A drawing by A. Laronde was found in his archive. As he mentions mouldings in front and on the right side, it is clear that the base when complete had mouldings only on three sides, which is a clue for a funerary base supporting a half-statue of funerary goddess. The Cyrenaican origin of the stone is reinforced by this indication.
At l. 2, Laronde's copy has no trace of the sigma given as unclear by Pugliese Carratelli.
In A. Laronde's notebook the provenance reads 'Marsa Dila'. It is very plausible that the error is the same as for IGCyr100700 (see the commentary there).
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