Probably epitaph
IGCyr105110
Trismegistos ID: 738575
Source Description
Support
White, probably Pentelic marble base, with mouldings of eggs and darts on top and below, later re-cut for re-use in a Christian building (0.70; 0.40;0.28).
Layout
Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (0.64; 0.20;0.25).
Letters
0.02 to 0.035; thickening ends of letters; slightly dissymmetrical nu,xi with central vertical stroke, smaller omicron, slightly slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Cyrene pleiades; HGL : probably from the East Necropolis .
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found between 1954 and 1956 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the South side of the East Church .
Later recorded Location
Seen in 1960 by D. Morelli at the findspot.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2004 at the findspot.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
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 , 264 (no image). Cf. Ward-Perkins-Goodchild-Reynolds, 2003 Ward-Perkins, J.B., Goodchild, R.G., (edited by Reynolds, J.M.), 2003, Christian monuments of Cyrenaica, Society for Libyan Studies monograph4, London - see in bibliography , p. 150 and fig. 105.
Apparatus
2 [Πρ]αξιάδα : 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 [Π]ρ̣αξιάδα
French translation
Anaxandros fils de Praxiadas
English translation
Anaxandros son of Praxiadas
French translation
Anaxandros figlio di Praxiadas
Arabic translation
أناكساندروس بن براكسيداس
Commentary
Like other funerary bases found re-used in the Eastern church, this one might come from the nearest Necropolis, i.e. the Eastern one.
The excavations of the East Church were carried out by Goodchild between 1954 and 1956. Il is highly plausible that the stone had been formerly buried. For explanations about the successive re-uses, see Ward-Perkins-Goodchild-Reynolds, 2003 Ward-Perkins, J.B., Goodchild, R.G., (edited by Reynolds, J.M.), 2003, Christian monuments of Cyrenaica, Society for Libyan Studies monograph4, London - see in bibliography .
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