Support: Fragmentary white marble base with mouldings (w: 0.85- × h: 0.59- × d: 0.33); broken away at right and above, chipped everywhere; re-used on opposite side in Roman time for IRCyr2020 C.781.

Layout: Inscribed on front face.

Letters: 0.035.

Date: Third to second centuries BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1911, Norton Expedition, at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unknown.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

Apparatus

French translation

(scil. Untel fils)de Polykles.

English translation

(scil. So-and-so son) of Polykles.

Italian translation

(scil. Il tale figlio) di Polykles.

Commentary

Although very much damaged, the stone is clearly the lower part of a base, keeping only the second line with a patronym. Its description reads «top hollowed», which is a clue for a honorific rather than funerary base. As it was «bought from an Arab», its findspot may be any place at Cyrene.

The date is too vague and men named Polykles too many to allow a precise prosopographical identification (pace Laronde).

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