Support
White marble base, reddish from earth, with mouldings of egg and dart on top and below on three sides (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on the face betwen the mouldings.
Letters
Dimensions unknown; slight serifs, smaller omicron, calice shaped upsilon, phi with small and flattened loop.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps end of third or beginning of second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 2000 by L. Cherstich at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : South Necropolis , tomb S66 Cassels.
Last recorded Location
Excavated and photographed by the Chieti Mission before 2013, in situ.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous mention and photograph (CDL).
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and James and Dorothy Thorn, Studia Archaeologica161, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 221 (mention from Cherstich's unpublished thesis); Belzic, 2015 Belzic, M., 2015, Les "divinités funéraires" de Cyrénaïque, 1-2, Master dissertation, École pratique des Hautes Études, 4e section, Paris - see in bibliography , n. 30.
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Iasis fils d'Euphris.
Iasis son fo Euphris.
Iasis figlio di Euphris.
Both names are common in Cyrenaica.
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