Support: Left half of white marble panel broken off at right, with a hole for attachment in the left margin (w: 0.13 × h: 0.11 × d: 0.05).

Layout: Inscribed on the face: each line centered.

Letters: 0.015; letters with serifs.

Date: Second century BC

Findspot: Found between 1914 and 1915 at Cyrene ➚: Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 56. Seen in 1979 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

(scil. La statue d')Aristokleia [fille d'un tel], qui exerçait la prêtrise, a été consacrée par Galestas [fils d'un tel].

English translation

(scil. The statue of)Aristokleia [daughter of So and so], who was priestess, was dedicated by Galestas [son of So and so].

Italian translation

(scil. La statua di)Aristokleia [figlia del tale], che era sacerdotessa, fu dedicata da Galestas [figlio del tale].

Commentary

Marengo rightly objected to Ghislanzoni's restorations and proposed to have a woman's name at l. 1 rather than a man's name and to see in her the honoranda.

As the stone was found in Demeter and Kore's sanctuary, the most natural solution is to link the participle at l. 2 with the woman's name, without the deities being explicitly mentioned.

Reynolds 2012, who does not know Marengo 1991, takes the name at l. 2 for the masculine Aristokles at the accusative case, leading to a highly improbable priest of Demeter.

For the name Γαλέστας see Minon 2005.

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Fig. 1. Squeeze of igcyr019300 Honours for priestess Aristokleia

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