Support: Left part of a white marble base with plain mouldings, severely damaged above and to the right (w: 0.66- × h: 0.39- × d: 0.56); on top, a hole with a small channel for attachment.

Layout: Inscribed on the face, between the mouldings (w: 0.62- × h: 0.22-).

Letters: 0.07; slight serifs; slanting sigma.

Date: Second half of the second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found at an unknown date at Cyrene ➚: 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).

Apparatus

French translation

Krin[---] fils (ou fille ?) d'Aristippos.

English translation

Krin[---] son (or daughter?) of Aristippos.

Italian translation

Krin[---] figlio (o figlia?) di Aristippos.

Commentary

The first editors, on the view that the base comes from the same tomb as IGCyr08100² and IGCyr086400², tried to find names common to those epitaphs and retained Κρῖνις as a possible restoration. However, the provenance might not be very clear. Moreover, the careful lettering shows a somewhat earlier date for the present inscription; the spacing of the letters and the place of the hole on top show that the gap was of ca. 5 letters at l. 1.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr086500 Epitaph

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