Support: Large white marble base with double mouldings of eggs and darts on all four sides, chipped on back (w: 0.99 × h: 0.595 × d: 0.65).

Layout: Inscribed on front face between the mouldings (w: 0.83 × h: 0.255).

Letters: 0.045-0.06; small serifs; smaller circular letters, xi with central hasta and small intermediate bar, slanting sigma.

Date: End of fourth or beginning of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found on September 8th, 1934 at Cyrene ➚: South Necropolis, near a tomb situated between S10 and S11 Cassels, still supporting a half-statue.

Place of origin: Findspot.

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

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Theukhrestos fils d'Anapsyxis.

English translation

Theuchrestos son of Anapsyxis.

Italian translation

Theuchrestos figlio di Anapsyxis.

Commentary

This inscription was published by Pugliese Carratelli from a photograph only.

Beschi, who observed the stone for his catalogue of funerary bases, would place it about the middle of III BC. However, the lettering seems somewhat older.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr102400 Epitaph

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