Probably dedication

IGCyr106300

Trismegistos ID: 738587

Source Description

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 : 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).

Bibliography

Morelli in SECir , 287 (no image).

Text

Καλλίμαχος Ἡρακλείτου

Apparatus

French translation

Kallimakhos fils d'Hérakleitos.

English translation

Kallimachos son of Herakleitos.

Italian translation

Kallimachos figlio di Herakleitos.

Commentary

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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