Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
White marble base, reddish from earth, with plain mouldings on top and below on three, sides, chipped off at upper angles; a hole and canal for attachment on the upper side (0.61; 0.33;0.42).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on the face, between the mouldings (0.535; 0.13;0.40).
Letters
0.03; small serifs, non-slanting sigma, upsilon with very short hasta and widely open oblique arms.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably first half of the second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Copied by L. Cherstich before 2001 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the South Necropolis , tomb S62 Cassels.
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.220 (mention); 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. 29 (typology).
Androkharis fils de Kydanôr.
Androcharis son of Kydanor.
Androcharis figlio di Kydanor.
This base, which C. Dobias-Lalou saw in 2001 in the courtyard of the Museum, had been previously copied by Cherstich in tomb S62 (mentioned by the Thorns in 2009).
Both names are attested in Cyrenaica for the first time and both are compounds with members commonly used in Greek anthroponyms. Androcharis is known only in the south-Aegean Doric islands, while Kydanor seems to be an absolute hapax .
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