Repository
Cyrene Museum, 496.
Support
Small white marble tapering stele with a plain moulding on top, broken off obliquely below (0.305; 0.345;0.08).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on front face.
Letters
0.025; wide alpha with rather low bar, slightly smaller omicron, slanting sigma, open omega.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1960 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : plausibly from one Necropolis .
Later recorded Location
Seen in 1960 by D. Morelli in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1977 and again in 2004 by C. Dobias-Lalou 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 , 278 (no image).
Aristagoras fils d'Aratos.
Aristagoras son of Aratos.
Aristagoras figlio di Aratos.
The masculine name Aratos is not very frequent at Cyrene, whereas the feminine Arata has been fashionable during the first century A.D. in the higher society.
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