Name

IGCyr131600

Trismegistos ID: 738863

Source Description

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 : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

( vac. )Ἀριστω[---]  [---]  - - - - - -?

Apparatus

1 Ἀριστω[---]  : Ἀρίστω[ν] : (or) Ἀριστώ[νυμος]

French translation

Aristô [---] .

English translation

Aristo [---] .

Italian translation

Aristo [---] .

Commentary

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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