Support: Grey marble base with two footprints on top, broken at the upper right angle, chipped off at the left edge (w: 0.82 × h: 0.67 × d: 0.695).

Layout: Inscribed: l. 2 is not well centred.

Letters: 0.022 ll. 1-2; 0.02 l. 3.

Date: Second half of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1924 at Cyrene ➚: agora, reused in a late wall, N-W of the Temple of Demeter and Kore.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 at Cyrene ➚: agora, before West portico.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Praxitélès fils d'Iskhémakhos, (scil. vainqueur aux) jeux Néméens, a consacré (scil. ce monument) aux dieux de l'agora.

English translation

Praxiteles son of Ischemachos, (scil. winner at the) Nemean games, dedicated (scil. this monument) to the gods of the agora.

Italian translation

Praxiteles figlio di Ischemachos, (scil. vincitore ai) giochi di Nemea, ha dedicato (scil. questo monumento) agli dèi dell'agora.

Commentary

For the historical context, see Laronde 1987.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr019900 Dedication to the gods of the agora

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