Support: Marble base with the face damaged when re-used (width 0.77).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: Perhaps 360 to 350 BC (prosopography).

Findspot: Found by C. Anti between 1925 and 1930 at Cyrene ➚: re-used for the dressing of the larger basin of the Fountain of Apollo.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚.

Last recorded location: Not found in 1960 by G. Pugliese Carratelli Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

French translation

Mélanippos fils d'Aristandros.

English translation

Melanippos son of Aristandros.

Italian translation

Melanippos figlio di Aristandros.

Commentary

This base was published by Pugliese Carratelli from a drawing and a very succinct description from Anti's papers (without reference to a precise sketchbook).

As it was re-used on the border of the Sanctuary of Apollo, we suppose that the original place of the base was in the Sanctuary. If so, it was honorific and not funerary. In absence of any description of its upper face, this remains only probable.

It is an tantalizing guess of Laronde's to identify this man with the well known homonymous priest whose duty he was able to date about 335 BC. Without any idea of the lettering, this should remain a hypothesis. It is now supported by Rosamilia 2023, p. 100, who dates the priest a few yeras later.

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