Repository
Cyrene Museum, 21.
Support
Small limestone tapering stele with a plain moulding on top (0.2; 0.45;0.11).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines under the moulding on the face (0.175 to 0.185; 0.385;0.095).
Letters
0.009 (omicron) to 0.015 (rho); no serifs; slanting sigma, circular letters slighlty smaller, xi with central vertical stroke, tall rho with rather small loop.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Plausibly 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 by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 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 , 292 (no image).
Sôstratos fils d'Alexis.
Sostratos son of Alexis.
Sostratos figlio di Alexis.
Although of the same shape as IGCyr106400, this stele is much smaller. As a tomb-marker, it should have stood on a sarcophagus of small scale. Inside a tomb-chamber, its placement is not obvious.
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