Support: White marble base with egg and dart mouldings above and below on three sides and, on top, a hole and channel for attachment; badly broken off at middle of upper moulding and at lower right angle, due to building engines (with mouldings w: 1.06 × h: 0.64 × d: 0.615).

Layout: Inscribed on two lines on front face between the mouldings (w: 0.905 × h: 0.27 × d: 0.455).

Letters: 0.08; slight serifs, upsilon on the way toward a calice shape, middle-sized loop of rho, omega with wing-shaped serifs.

Date: First half of 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

Theudôros fils d'Hagèsitratos.

English translation

Theudoros son of Hagesistratos.

Italian translation

Theudoros figlio di Hagesistratos.

Commentary

The base is very similar to IGCyr085800² and both have been found during building works for the new town of Shahat; the first editors thus supposed that they belonged to the same family-tomb.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr085900 Epitaph

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