Support: Right part of a white marble base with mouldings of eggs and darts on the front at top and bottom, broken off at left (w: 0.54 × h: 0.365 × d: 0.41); the right side seems to have been sawn off for re-use, whence the missing moulding on that side and a hole on the upper side might also be related.

Layout: Inscribed on front face (w: 0.40 × h: 0.155), symmetrically along the central axis.

Letters: 0.03; serifs, upsilon with rather short vertical stroke, sigma moderately slantering.

Date: Second half of third to first half of second 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).

Apparatus

French translation

[Phil]ytas fils de [---]ximakhos.

English translation

[Phil]ytas son of [---]ximachos.

Italian translation

[Phil]ytas figlio di [---]ximachos.

Commentary

For the father's name both Ζευξίμαχος and Ἀλεξίμαχος would fit the gap that may be also estimated from the average size of such bases. Hence a gap of three letters for the son's name, for which Ναύτας, proposed by the first editors would be too short, whereas Φιλύτας is a typical name of the region.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr087500 Epitaph

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