Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
Marble base with plain mouldings on top and below, broken off at left front (0.95; 0.365;0.58).
Layout
Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (0.815; 0.19;0.545).
Letters
0.04; no serifs; epsilon with central shorter bar, horse-shoe shaped omega.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Seen by J. Cassels in 1955 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : South Necropolis , tomb S52 Cassels.
Later recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat : in front of the Casa Parisi , which is part of the Cyrene Museum .
Last recorded Location
Seen and photographed by the Chieti Mission before 2013 at the same place.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Cassels, 1955 Cassels, J., 1955, The cemeteries of Cyrene, Papers of the British School at Rome (PBSR)23, 1-43 - see in bibliography , p.34 (mention of an inscribed base); 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.218 (diplomatic transcription from Cassels' notebook).
1 [Π]έλεια : 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 (vac. 1)Ε̣Λ̣ΕΙΑ
Peleia fille de Mélanippos.
Peleia daughter of Melanippos.
Peleia figlia di Melanippos.
بيليا ابنة ميلانيبوس
The feminine name Πέλεια was already known at Cyrene (IRCyr C.91, l. 29 and IRCyr C.130, l. 13) and Taucheira (IRCyr T.627, l. 2) at later dates; no other name would match the gap.
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