Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
White marble base with plain mouldings on top and below, which are slightly chipped off at the upper right and also on the upper face (dimensions from the photograph ca. 0.66; ca. 0.26; -).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on the face.
Letters
Approximately, from the photograph ca. 0.03; no serifs, smaller theta and omicron, slightly slanting sigma, horse-shoe shaped omega.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps end of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 2013 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : unidentified Necropolis .
Last recorded Location
Seen and photographed by the Chieti Mission before 2013 in Shahat : in front of the Casa Parisi , which is part of the Cyrene Museum .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from Chieti documentation (CDL).
Not previoulsy published.
Prôros fils de Theukrisios.
Proros son of Theukrisios.
Proros figlio di Theukrisios.
The name Πρῶρος is only attested in Cyrenaica. The father's name is known mainly from Cyrene (also from Thera, yet in Roman times), mainly in the dialectal form Θευκρίσιος, but sometimes also in the more common form Θεοκρίσιος, for which we have but one occurrence in Attica.
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