Support
Marble base with mοulding of egg and dart at top (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
Dimensions unknown and shapes unknown.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
First seen by J. Cassels in 1954 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : East Necropolis , at a distance of 100 m. north-west of tomb E1 to which it should have belonged.
Present Location
Not found by the Thorns nor seen by IGCyr team
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor.
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. 148; Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 2010.634.
1 Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography Δ̣ρομιάδας : 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 ΩΡΟΜΙΑΔΑΣ (Cassels' Grey Book) : 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 ΑΡΟΜΙΑΔΑΣ (Cassels' Yellow Book)
Dromiadas fils d'Aristophanès.
Dromiadas son of Aristophanes.
Dromiadas figlio di Aristophanes.
Known only from two copies in block-letters by Cassels (1954), fortunately published by the Thorns, this base was dated by the former. At line 2 a genitive with the koine ending would rather lead to the lower date, but this is not absolutely sure.
At line 1 our reading seems to be a good compromise between the two successive copies of Cassels'.
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