Support
White marble slightly tapering stele, with plain double moulding on top on all four sides, broken off at lower left angle (alltogether 0.365; 1.08;0.315; under moulding 0.325; 1.02;0.27; below width 0.365).
Layout
Inscribed on the face at 0.16 under the moulding.
Letters
0.027, no serifs; slantering sigma, slightly smaller circular letters.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably second half of fourth or first half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1979 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : from an undetermined Necropolis .
Last recorded Location
Observed by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat , inside the archaeological enclosure, north of the Caesareum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Not previously published.
Peithagoras fils d'Iasôn.
Peithagoras son of Iason.
Peithagoras figlio di Iason.
Iason was a very common name at Cyrene, Peithagoras has also some occurrences. No prosopographical relation can be suggested.
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