Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
White marble tapering stele with one plain moulding above on three sides (0.47; 1.165;0.295).
Layout
Inscribed on front face in two lines.
Letters
0.033; symmetrical nu, slanting sigma, widely open upsilon and omega.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third 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 : in front of the Casa Parisi , which is part of the Cyrene Museum .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 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 , 280 (no image).
Astyklès fils de Nikaios.
Astykles son of Nikaios.
Astykles figlio di Nikaios.
This stele had been brought to the garden of Casa Parisi before 1960. It was probably not found before World War II, but brought there for protection in post-war times, when Goodchild was in charge of the Deparment of Antiquities.
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