Repository
Cyrene Museum, no inv. number.
Support
Large white marble base with double mouldings of eggs and darts on all four sides, chipped on back (0.99; 0.595;0.65).
Layout
Inscribed on front face between the mouldings (0.83; 0.255;).
Letters
0.045-0.06; small serifs; smaller circular letters, xi with central hasta and small intermediate bar, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found on September 8th, 1934 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : South Necropolis , near a tomb situated between S10 and S11 Cassels, still supporting a half-statue.
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1997 by C. Dobias-Lalou 1997 in Shahat : 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 , 195 (photo). 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 , pp. 197-198 (discovery) and p. 204 (date of base); Thorn-Thorn, 2009 Thorn, D.M., Thorn, J.C. (eds.), 2009, A Gazetteer of the Cyrene Necropolis from the original notebooks of John Cassels, Richard Tomlinson and James and Dorothy Thorn, Studia Archaeologica161, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 210 (provenance).
Theukhrestos fils d'Anapsyxis.
Theuchrestos son of Anapsyxis.
Theuchrestos figlio di Anapsyxis.
This inscription was published by Pugliese Carratelli from a photograph only.
Beschi, who observed the stone for his catalogue of funerary bases, would place it about the middle of III B.C. However, the lettering seems somewhat older.
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