Support: Base of unknown material with plain mouldings (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on front face.

Letters: Height unknown; from Pacho's drawing, non-slanting sigma.

Date: Third to second centuries BC (lettering).

Findspot: Copied by J.-R. Pacho in 1825 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

French translation

Harpalea fille de Kleuthemis.

English translation

Harpalea daughter of Kleuthemis.

English translation

Harpalea figlia di Kleuthemis.

Arabic translation

أربيليا ابنة كليوثيموس

Commentary

We consider this base as funerary with two arguments: 1. In Pacho's time bases were to be seen mainly in the necropoleis; 2. this type of base is more usual for epitaphs than for honours.

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