Support: Marble base; on three sides, double mouldings of eggs and darts, chipped all around; top left and lower right angles broken away; hole and canal on top for attaching a statue (w: 0.51 × h: 0.34 × d: 0.33).

Layout: Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (w: 0.465 × h: 0.15 × d: 0.32); well centered letters.

Letters: 0.03, deeply cut.

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

Findspot: Found in 1911 by the Norton mission at Cyrene ➚: Necropolis; presumably North Necropolis (Thorn).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou οn June 16th, 2010 at the moderne entrance to the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Eubolos fils d'Apollodoros.

English translation

Eubolos son of Apollodoros.

English translation

Eubolos figlio di Apollodoros.

Commentary

Beschi 1970, p. 205, puts this base in a group dated to the 1st half of the second century BC. This is impossible in view of the lettering (see also "IV/III" in Fraser – Matthews 1987, p. 172 from J.M. Reynolds' opinion).

Robinson gave no information about the provenance. Oliverio only said that it came from one necropolis. The Thorns' assumption that it was the Northern one may be due to the fact that the Norton mission had its camp in that very part of the necropoleis.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr025700 Epitaph

Fig. 2. Face of igcyr025700 Epitaph

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