Honors
IGCyr123500
Trismegistos ID: 738784
Source Description
Support
White marble rectangular base with holes for attachment of a statue: one circular hole for a raised foot at back left, one oval hole for a resting foot at front right (0.495; 0.15;0.64).
Layout
Inscribed in one line on the face, near the upper rim.
Letters
0.035, carefully cut, no serifs; slightly smaller omicron, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably last quarter of fourth or first quarter of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Possibly found during the Italian excavations before World War II at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 and again in 2001 placed on a wall in the area of the Temple of Asklepios .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Not previously published.
Apparatus
French translation
Lysis fils d'Aristis.
English translation
Lysis son of Aristis.
Italian translation
Lysis figlio di Aristis.
Commentary
Although both names are frequently used in Cyrene, the lettering allows to suggest that this man might be the father of one Aristis son of Lysis, a contributor mentioned at IGCyr065210, ii.105.
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