Support: White marble rectangular base with plain mouldings above and below (base w: 0.68 × h: 0.31 × d: 0.52; without mouldings w: 0.625 × h: 0.14 × d: 0.455); later re-used upside down and recut as a basin.

Layout: Inscribed on the face, each line having the same number of letters, which are vertically aligned so as to from a sort of stoichedon.

Letters: 0.04 without serifs; beta with slightly larger upper loop, slanting sigma.

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

Findspot: Found in 1956 at Cyrene ➚: probably East Necropolis (Wadi Graga).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 3578. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Eubatas fils d'Erilokhos.

English translation

Eubatas son of Erilochos.

Italian translation

Eubatas figlio di Erilochos.

Commentary

This is probably the man with the same name mentioned as a commander of the ephebes in IGCyr084000², dated ca. 340 BC. He might also be the winner at the Olympian games in 408 and 364 known through Pausanias (6.8.3) without his father's name, but this remains hypothetical.

On the name Erilochos, see Dobias-Lalou 1994. Both names were frequently used in the higher society of Cyrene.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr085100 Epitaph

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