Support: Left part of a white marble base with plain moulding on top and bottom of the front and side (whole preserved part w: 0.41 × h: 0.34 × d: 0.55).

Layout: Inscribed in one line of front face between the mouldings (w: 0.34 × h: 0.17).

Letters: 0.5; slantering sigma, flat loop of phi.

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

Findspot: Found before 1985 at Cyrene ➚: probably from South Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1985 at Cyrene ➚: inside archaeological enclosure North of Caesareum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Nikis fils de Ph[---].

English translation

Nikis son of Ph[---].

Italian translation

Nikis figlio di Ph[---].

Commentary

As pointed by J.M. Reynolds, no Nikis is up to now known in association with a name beginning with a phi. No restoration of the father's name can thus be suggested.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr087200 Epitaph

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