Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
White marble base, reddish from earth, with plain mouldings on top and below on three sides (0.62; 0.27;0.47).
Layout
Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (0.58; 0.13;0.45).
Letters
0.03; no serifs, slanting sigma, smaller omicron and omega.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Seen and copied by L. Cherstich before 2002 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : South Necropolis , tomb S8 Cassels (found with its half-figure statue).
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2001 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (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. 209 (diplomatic transcription from Cherstich's thesis)
Proklès fils de Stratôn.
Prokles son of Straton.
Prokles figlio di Straton.
Neither Prokles nor Straton are rare names, the latter being quite common in Cyrenaica. No prosopographical link may be established.
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