Support: White marble base with egg and dart mouldings above and below on three sides, chipped off on both mouldings, especially below; on top, hole and channel for attachment (with mouldings w: 1.135 × h: 0.63 × d: 0.69).

Layout: Inscribed on two lines on front face (w: 0.945 × h: 0.25 × d: 0.63).

Letters: 0.075; slight serifs, very flat loop of phi, upsilon on the way toward a calice shape.

Date: First half of the third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1979 at Cyrene ➚: probably from South Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 at Cyrene ➚: inside archaeological enclosure North of Caesareum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Antiphilos fils d'Eukleidas.

English translation

Antiphilos son of Eukleidas.

Italian translation

Antiphilos figlio di Eukleidas.

Commentary

The base is very similar to IGCyr085900² and both have been found during building works for the new town of Shahat; on that basis, the first editors supposed that they belonged to the same family-tomb in the South necropolis.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr085800 Epitaph

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