Support: White marble rectangular base with plain mouldings at top and bottom on three sides, (with mouldingsw: 0.51 × h: 0.26 × d: 0.36); a channel for attachment was cut into the upper side.

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on front face (w: 0.465 × h: 0.14 × d: 0.325).

Letters: 0.03; light serifs, phi with flattened loop, sigma with parallel outer strokes, omega slightly smaller than the other letters.

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

Findspot: Found before 1995 at Cyrene ➚: plausibly South Necropolis (see commentary).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, no inv. number. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1997 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Philônidas fils d'Antiphilos.

English translation

Philonidas son of Antiphilos.

Italian translation

Philonidas figlio di Antiphilos.

Commentary

The findspot was reported by Mohamed – Reynolds 1997, p. 38 n. 13 as follows: «beside a tomb on the old Cyrene-Balagrae (Shahat-Beida) road, about 1 km west of the extra-mural sanctuary of Demeter, still carrying a three-quarter figure of a mourning woman» (also repeated by the Thorns: Thorn – Thorn 2009, p. 266). It must be remembered that at the time the only known part of the extra-mural sanctuary was the area excavated by the American mission (so-called Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore), which is the Western part of the Southern Extra-Mural Sacred Zone as known since 2000. '1 km west' of it would be in the West Necropolis. So 'west' should be a mistake for 'east' and, as the Necropolis does not begin in correspondance with the sanctuary, the findspot should be sought more to the south, beside the road.

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