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Presumably marble stele with double moulding at top, originally placed on the platform over the roof of a temple-built tomb; from Tomlinson's sketch: upper moulding (0.36; 0.03; -), lower moulding (0.35; 0.035; -), below moulding 0.30; height unknown; -.
Layout
Inscribed, as it seems from the sketch, on the upper moulding.
Letters
Height unknown; rather uneven letters (Cassels).
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth or third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found on March 20th, 1954 by J. Cassels at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : East Necropolis , tomb E10 Cassels.
Later recorded Location
Seen by R. Tomlinson in 1956
Last recorded Location
Seen in situ by L. Beschi in 1961.
Present Location
Not found by J.C. Thorn in 2001.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Cassels, 1955 Cassels, J., 1955, The cemeteries of Cyrene, Papers of the British School at Rome (PBSR)23, 1-43 - see in bibliography , pp. 15, 38 (no illustration). Cf. Beschi, 1970 Beschi, L., 1970, Divinità funerarie cirenaiche, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)47-48, 133-341 - see in bibliography , pp. 200-201; Thorn-Thorn, 2009 Thorn, D.M., Thorn, J.C. (eds.), 2009, A Gazetteer of the Cyrene Necropolis from the original notebooks of John Cassels, Richard Tomlinson and James and Dorothy Thorn, Studia Archaeologica161, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 150 (Tomlinson's sketch).
1 Beschi, 1970 Beschi, L., 1970, Divinità funerarie cirenaiche, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)47-48, 133-341 - see in bibliography Πολυδάμας : Cassels, 1955 Cassels, J., 1955, The cemeteries of Cyrene, Papers of the British School at Rome (PBSR)23, 1-43 - see in bibliography ΠΩΛΥΔΑΜΑΣ : Thorn-Thorn, 2009 Thorn, D.M., Thorn, J.C. (eds.), 2009, A Gazetteer of the Cyrene Necropolis from the original notebooks of John Cassels, Richard Tomlinson and James and Dorothy Thorn, Studia Archaeologica161, Roma - see in bibliography ΠΩΛΥΔΑΜΑΣ (Tomlinson's reading)
Polydamas fils d'Euainos.
Polydamas son of Euainos.
Polydamas figlio di Euainos.
Cassels in his 1955 publication only gave a diplomatic transcription of the inscription on the stele, which should have stood on top of the rectangular built tomb and suggested a date. The Tomlinson archive, published by the Thorns in 2009, has a useful sketch.
In 1961, Beschi saw the stele amongst the ruins and unearthed a mourning half-figure (n. 24 of his catalogue) roughly contemporary.
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