Repository
Cyrene Museum, inventory number missing.
Support
White marble tapering stele with a plain moulding on top of all four sides; still reddish from earth, chipped off on the left edge of the face and at the lower right angle; re-used on the opposite face for three epitaphs (hitherto unpublished) of Roman date (0.20-0.23; 0.60;0.155- 0.17).
Layout
Inscribed on the face (0.20-0.22; 0.54;0.155-0.17), beginning at 0.09 under the moulding; both lines were aligned following the left edge.
Letters
0.02 without serifs; slightly dissymmetrical nu, broad alpha, xi with central hasta, large omicron.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 2010 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded; plausibly from one Necropolis .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Not previously published.
Phoinix fils d'Antipatros.
Phoinix son of Antipatros.
Phoinix figlio di Antipatros.
Whereas Antipatros is common in Cyrenaica at all periods, Phoinix is here attested for the first time in the region. However it is no rare name in Greece, referring to the ethnic ( Bechtel, 1917 Bechtel, F., 1917, Die historischen Personennamen des Griechischen bis zur Kaiserzeit, Halle - see in bibliography , p. 544) and probably also to the mythologic figure of Achilleus' tutor.
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