Repository
Cyrene Museum, 487.
Support
White marble console with a projecting triple moulding above and a small rib below on three sides (0.36; 0.118;0.24).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on front face under the moulding (0.25; 0.055;0.175).
Letters
0.01; thickening ends of carefully cut letters; kappa with large oblique bars, slightly slanting mu, small omicron, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
First half of third century 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 1977 at the same place; seen again in 2010, when the left angle of the moulding had been broken off.
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 , 287 (no image).
Kallimakhos fils d'Hérakleitos.
Kallimachos son of Herakleitos.
Kallimachos figlio di Herakleitos.
This stone, which was said to be a base by Morelli is in fact a console. This shape is unique and does not help to place it into any series. However it seems to be votive rather than funerary.
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