Support: Two adjacent pieces of a greyish marble oblong block, later recut on left side and behind so as to obtain a round shape with shallow fluting; on fragment b, line 2 has been hammered out (fragment a: w: 0.35 × h: 0.25; fragment b: w: 0.395 × h: 0.25).

Layout: Inscribed on the face in two lines of different height.

Letters: Line 1: 0.015-0.02; line 2: 0.008; slight serifs, sigma with slanting bars.

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

Findspot: Found before 1937 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, no inventory number. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1997 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Theokrisios fils d'Aristippos, Theokrisios fils de Paraibatas.

Oeuvre de [---]atès de Milet ⟦[---]⟧.

English translation

Theokrisios son of Aristippos, Theokrisios son of Paraibatas.

Made by [---]ates of Miletus ⟦[---]⟧.

Italian translation

Theokrisios figlio di Aristippos, Theokrisios figlio di Paraibatas.

Opera di [---]ates di Mileto ⟦[---]⟧.

Commentary

The photograph in editio princeps might give the impression that some letters are readable in the erased portion of line 2. Neither direct examination nor squeeze do confirm this.

An attractive restoration of the sculptor's name as a compound in -κράτης is a mere possibility amongst others, as pointed out by Rosamilia, because names that in Cyrenaica would end in -άτας also had this ending in Ionic.

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Images

Fig. 1. Face of igcyr065800 Private honours and artist's signature

Fig. 2. Fragment b of igcyr065800 Private honours and artist's signature

Fig. 3. Squeeze of fgt a of igcyr065800 Private honours and artist's signature

Fig. 4. Squeeze of fgtb of igcyr065800 Private honours and artist's signature

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