Repository
Cyrene Museum, 139.
Support
Limestone block, broken at right and back (0.43; 0.63;0.48).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on front face, apparently without any loss of text in the broken part.
Letters
0.045 (xi) to 0.07 (rho); deeply cut without serifs; alpha with low bar, slanting mu, tall rho with large loop, slanting sigma.
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 by D. Morelli in 1960 in Shahat : 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 , 293 (no image).
Timarkhos.
Timarchos.
Timarchos.
This man's name without father's name on a rough stone is more plausibly an epitaph than a honorific mention.
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