Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
Fragment of a white marble columnar base, moulded around the upper edge and with holes on the top for an attachment (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the surface below the upper moulding (- 0.07;0.25).
Letters
0.015 to 0.017; gamma with very large upper bar, rho with large loop, slanting sigma; thickening ends of letters.
Place of Origin
Date
Third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1993 in a votive depot South of Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the area of the Wadi el Aish .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1993 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Mohamed-Reynolds-Dobias-Lalou, 2007 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., Dobias-Lalou, C., 2007, Recently discovered inscriptions at Cyrene, in L. Gasperini, S. Marengo (eds.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'antichità: atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Roma-Frascati, 18-21 dicembre 1996, Ichnia9, Tivoli, 17-48 - see in bibliography , p. 41, n. 7, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 57.2013.
[---] fils d'Hagèsagoras [---] .
[---] son of Hagesagoras [---] .
[---] figlio di Hagesagoras [---] .
As sigma, the only letter surviving from line 2, can end neither the verb of dedication nor the name of the deity to whom an offering is made, it is most plausible that this line had another personal name with father's name. If so, the first person was honoured by the second one. However this is only a plausible guess.
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