Support: White marble base with plain mouldings above and below, the upper one badly chipped; left side broken off (w: 0.59 × h: 0.35 × d: 0.65).

Layout: Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (w: 0.575 × h: 0.16 × d: 0.40), with each line well centered, the letters pressed together in the middle, with large margins on both sides.

Letters: 0.05; carefully cut and apicated letters.

Date: End of second or beginning of first century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found at an unknown date at Cyrene ➚: Necropolis, probably North Necropolis (Thorn).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 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

Psaphô fille de Dionysios.

English translation

Psapho daughter of Dionysios.

Italian translation

Psaphò figlia di Dionysios.

Arabic translation

بسافو بنة ديونيسيوس

Commentary

Beschi dates the base of 2nd half of III or beginning of II BC. However the script is clearly lower (so also Fraser – Matthews 1987, pp. 137, 488, following J.M. Reynolds' opinion).

Beschi shows an archive photograph proving that the base was found in the same undefined tomb as IGCyr025900² together with the mourning half-figure n. 7 of his catalogue, although the latter matches none of the bases.

As the Thorns put it, the only Necropolis where the Italians made some excavations before World War II is the Northern one.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr026800 Epitaph

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr026800 Epitaph

Fig. 3. Face of igcyr026800 Epitaph

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