Support
Marble base, said by J. Thorn to be 'ornate', which probably means with mouldings of egg and dart on top and below (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
Height unknown.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably fourth or third century B.C. (context)
Findspot
Seen by L. Cherstich before 2002 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : South Necropolis , tomb S9 Cassels, not far from a half-figure statue.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous mentions (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. 210 (diplomatic transcription from Cherstich's thesis). Cf. Thorn, 2005 Thorn, J.C., 2005, The Necropolis of Cyrene: two hundred years of exploration, Monografie di archeologia libica26, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 351, fig. 230 (mention of a base).
1 Κάφι[σ]ος : 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 Κάφι[λ]ος
Kaphisos fils de Philoklès.
Kaphisos son of Philokles.
Kaphisos figlio di Philokles.
Kaphisos is a rather rare name, belonging to the series of names of streams used as personal names. This reading seems the most probable instead of the uninterpretable form read by Cherstich.
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