Support: White marble base with double mouldings of eggs and darts (w: 0.92 × h: 0.57 × d: 0.55).

Layout: Inscribed. Letters laid out on the whole width (w: 0.78 × h: 0.285 × d: 0.475).

Letters: 0.05-0.055; slight serifs, omicron as big as other letters.

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

Findspot: Found at an unknown date at Cyrene ➚: Necropolis (Oliverio); presumably North Necropolis (Thorn).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: in front of the ancient Sculpture Museum and again in 1997 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Karnèdas fils d'Isokratès.

English translation

Karnedas son of Isokrates.

Italian translation

Karnedas figlio di Isokrates.

Commentary

Beschi dated the base in the 1st half of second century BC, but the lettering seems older (so also Fraser – Matthews 1987, pp. 239, 252, following J.M. Reynolds' opinion).

The Thorns assumed that this base might come from the North Necropolis because the Italian archaeologists worked mainly in that sector before World War II.

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