Repository
Cyrene Museum, 3343.
Support
Fragment of a white marble block, probably the upper left part of a rectangular base or a stele, broken off at right, below and at rear (0.34; 0.11;0.22).
Layout
Inscribed under the upper edge of the face (0.31; 0.06;).
Letters
0.045 with small serifs; non-slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1982 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Not previously published.
1 Ἀριστω[---] : Ἀρίστω[ν] : (or) Ἀριστώ[νυμος]
Aristô [---] .
Aristo [---] .
Aristo [---] .
This might be a base, the upper moulding of which would be totally erased. If so, a name and father's name should be read and the base would rather be funerary for the lack of attachment holes on the upper face. Yet, this point is not quite sure because of the rear being broken off.
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