Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
White marble tapering stele with plain moulding on top on three sides, chipped of at the upper left angle (0.375; 1.19;0.28).
Layout
Inscribed on the face (0.345 to 0.37; 1.125;0.24 to 0.28) in two lines.
Letters
0.04; symmetrical nu, slanting sigma, widely open upsilon.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1960 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL , presumably from an undetermined Necropolis .
Later recorded Location
Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in Shahat : outside the Casa Parisi , which is part of the Cyrene Museum .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 at the same place.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Morelli in 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 , 261 (no image).
Androklès fils de Neussos.
Androkles son of Neussos.
Androkles figlio di Neussos.
أندروكليس بن نيوسوس
The position of the stele, partly hidden by other stones, forbade to make a photograph.
The name Νεῦσσος, from the dialectal form of the word 'nestling', is not quite uncommon at Cyrene.
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