Support: Marble base, heavily corroded, with double plain mouldings (w: 0.73 × h: 0.23 × d: 0.58).

Layout: Inscribed on main face.

Letters: 0.025, no serifs; slanting sigma, smaller omicron.

Date: End of fourth or beginning of third centuries BC (lettering, prosopography).

Findspot: Bought by H.F. De Cou on April 7th, 1911 from an Arab at Cyrene ➚ (see commentary).

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚.

Last recorded location: Seen by G. Oliverio before 1932 at Shahat. Never found since.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors.

French translation

Kyrbasias fils de Pratis.

English translation

Kyrbasias son of Pratis.

Italian translation

Kyrbasias figlio di Pratis.

Commentary

Oliverio's provenance 'Necropolis' is only conjectural, as shown by De Cou's indication in Robinson 1913. Consequently, a family link with Pratis in IGCyr025300² is quite uncertain as both bases might come from different places and not from a common family tomb. Without further arguments, the Thorns suspected that the provenance was the North Necropolis.

On the other hand a P[rati]s son of Kyrbasias is mentioned in 320 BC in the diagramma of Ptolemy (IGCyr010800², l. 79) as being nomophylax. The fact that the name Kyrbasias is very rare allows to consider that both mentions refer to one and the same person, rather than to grandfather and grandson.

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