Support: White marble rectangular base without any moulding; a circular hollow on top (w: 0.625 × h: 0.24 × d: 0.485).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.035; careful lettering, without serifs.

Date: Ca. 300 BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1935 at Cyrene ➚: East Necropolis, by the Italian army, while digging for a shaft near Wadi Sneidi, i.e. in the North-Eastern part of the Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, no inventory number. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou on September 12th, 1993 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Daimenes fils de Teloxenos.

English translation

Daimenes son of Teloxenos.

Italian translation

Daimenes figlio di Teloxenos.

Commentary

The round hollow on top, normally, is not a good clue for a funerary use; neither is the shape of the stone without mouldings, although Beschi mentions it amongst his first group of funerary bases. However, Oliverio mentioned as provenance the 'South-Eastern Necropolis' (which is in fact the Eastern one). The question should remain open.

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