Support: White marble base with double mouldings of eggs and darts (w: 0.92 × h: 0.53 × d: 0.43); the lower moulding has been later cut off; on top, a quadrangular hole, one side of which had already before 1970 lost a considerable fragment, extending to the middle of the upper front side.

Layout: Inscribed on the front face.

Letters: 0.09; light serifs.

Date: Late fourth century BC (prosopography).

Findspot: Copied by J.-R. Pacho 1825 at Cyrene ➚: possibly in the North Necropolis, but perhaps elsewhere as it was re-used.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚: most probably from the North Necropolis, Tomb of the Mnesarchoi, Cassels' N171.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 242. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou on May 8th, 1976 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Mnasarkhos fils de Theukhrestos.

English translation

Mnasarchos son of Theuchrestos.

Italian translation

Mnasarchos figlio di Theuchrestos.

Arabic translation

مناسارخوس بن ثيوخريستوس

Commentary

For the whole family, see Laronde 1987 and his hietherto unublished Prosopographia. This base might also be some decades later and belong to the grandson of Theuchrestos I.

The stone was recut and probably reused at the place where Pacho saw it. However it is almost sure that it has once stood in the Mnesarchi tomb N 171 with the other bases of that family.

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