Repository
Cyrene Museum, 260.
Support
Fragmentary white marble base, broken on all sides but at left, dowel holes on the left upper edge (0.25; 0.10;0.12).
Layout
Inscribed on two lines on the face, which is badly scratched.
Letters
0.025; serifs; non-slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably end of second or beginning of first centuries B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1960 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Later recorded Location
Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 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 , 266 (no image); Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 43, 103, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 50.1637.
2 Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography Ναρίστ̣[ω] : 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 [Ἀ]νδ̣ρίσ[κω]
Kalliklès fils de Naristos.
Kallikles son of Naristos.
Kallikles figlio di Naristos.
كاليكليس بن ناريستوس
The very fragmentary condition of the stone makes it difficult to trace its function. However the dowel hole in the upper left edge suggests that it is no funerary base, but should belong to a honorary monument.
The vestiges of line 2 consist in the upper half of five letters. The first one is a nu and is also the first letter of the line. The second letter might be an alpha, a delta or a lambda. Rho, iota and sigma are certain. After it, a small part of a horizontal bar can only belong to a tau. Hence the proposed reading. The new name Νάριστος is the dialectal form resulting from Ναϝ-αριστος, as proposed by Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography .
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