Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
White marble base, with plain mouldings on top and below, hammered at right (0.68; 0.275;0.315).
Layout
Inscribed twice on one line on the face between the mouldings (0.65; 0.185;0.27).
Letters
0.03; no serifs; phi with ovale loop.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1960 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : presumably from one Necropolis .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1979 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : in front of the Casa Parisi, which is part of the Cyrene Museum .
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 , 268 (no image); Masson, 1976 Masson, O., 1976, Grecs et Libyens en Cyrénaïque, d'après les témoignages de l'épigraphie, Antiquités Africaines10, 49-62 - see in bibliography , p. 62 (= Masson, 1990 Masson, O., 1990, Onomastica graeca selecta, I-II, Paris-Nanterre - see in bibliography , p. 298); Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 43, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 50.1637.
1-and-2 Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography Λάρα Φιλη〚 [c. 4 - 5]〛 : 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 Λαραφίλη : Masson, 1976 Masson, O., 1976, Grecs et Libyens en Cyrénaïque, d'après les témoignages de l'épigraphie, Antiquités Africaines10, 49-62 - see in bibliography Λαρα φίλη
Lara fille de Philè〚 [---] 〛.
Lara fille de Philè〚 [---] 〛.
Lara daughter of Phile〚 [---] 〛.
Lara daughter of Phile〚 [---] 〛.
Lara figlia di Phile〚 [---] 〛.
Lara figlia di Phile〚 [---] 〛.
This base in its present condition seems to be the result of a failed work; the same names were written twice with the same lettering and the right end of each line was later hammered. Two possible names for the father would be Φίληκις or Φιλήμων.
Masson thought the name Λαρα to be perhaps of Libyan origin. However a Greek explanation is perfectly possible. C. Dobias-Lalou, notwithstanding the explanation given at Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 43, is now convinced that this name is based upon the adjective λαρός, 'pleasant, sweet'.
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