Repository
Cyrene Museum, not found.
Support
White marble base reddish from earth, with plain mouldings above and below, the lower one chipped off (0.86; 0.25;0.57).
Layout
Inscribed on front face between the mouldings (0.78; 0.15;), in two lines centred along vertical axis.
Letters
0.035; rho and phi with small loop, the latter flattened, non-slanting sigma, slightly smaller omicron.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1960 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : from one Necropolis .
Later recorded Location
Seen in 1960 by D. Morelli in Shahat : outside the ancient Sculpture Museum .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1993 by C. Dobias-Lalou inside the new Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CL).
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 , 272 (ph.).
Pherôi fille de Semèr.
Pheroi daughter of Semer.
Pheròi figlia di Semer.
Whereas the daughter's name is an unicum, yet pertains to a very common type of Greek feminine shortnames in -ώι, the father has a name of Libyan origin (see 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. 59).
One Semer is the father of a military officer in IGCyr094400, dated in the second half of the fourth century.
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