Support: White marble base with plain mouldings on top and below, very much chipped off (whole base: w: 0.55 × h: 0.3 × d: 0.385).

Layout: Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (w: 0.50 × h: 0.17 × d: 0.33).

Letters: 0.025.

Date: Third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1928 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, N-W of Roman Propylaeum.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚: probably from North Necropolis.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum, that is in 1979 on the terrace of the ancient Sculpture Museum and again in 1997 in the backyard of the new Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Antipatros fils d'Euphris.

English translation

Antipatros son of Euphris.

Italian translation

Antipatros figlio di Euphris.

Commentary

When Oliverio published this base, he did not mention any hole for attachment on the upper side (which he did for other certainly votive bases found in the same area). In the SEG, the base was given as votive, probably in view of its findspot. In 1979 the base was still presented amongst a series of funerary bases, surmounted by a funerary statue, so that it was impossible to check the upper face. Neither was this possible in 1997 after its having been moved to the backyard of the new Museum. As the findspot was in the upper layers of an area that was not yet well defined at the time, we may as well suspect that the block had been brought from the nearest Necropolis to the Sanctuary for a re-use.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr022500 Epitaph (?)

Fig. 2. Drawing of igcyr022500 Epitaph (?)

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