Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
White marble base with plain mouldings on top and below, later reused upside down, whence a circular hole in the former under side; chipped off at angles (dimensions not registered).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on the whole width of the face, between the mouldings.
Letters
Dimensions unknown; no serifs, smaller theta, slanting sigma, calice-shaped upsilon.
Place of Origin
Cyrene pleiades; HGL : plausibly from one undetermined Necropolis .
Date
Perhaps first half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 2004 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded and anyway related to the re-use.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2004 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Not previously published.
Euklès fils de Kartisthénès.
Eukles son of Kartisthenes.
Eukles figlio di Kartisthenes.
The name Kartisthenes is of common use in the Hellenistic and also Roman period at Cyrene. Eukles is a compound formed with the common second member -kles ; however it is rather rare in Cyrenaica. No prosopographical relation can be proposed for that man.
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