Support: White marble low base with mouldings of eggs and darts above and below on three sides, all severely chipped off or perhaps intentionally recut; also broken off at left (w: 0.83 × h: 0.22 × d: 0.46).

Layout: Inscribed in one line on front face between the mouldings (w: 0.79 × h: 0.11 × d: 0.43).

Letters: 0.035 (tau, epsilon) to 0.04 (iota, beta); calice-shaped upsilon, open omega.

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

Findspot: Probably found during excavations of the Department of Antiquities under Goodchild between 1954 and 1956 at Cyrene ➚: re-used in the retaining wall South of the East Church, just East of the staircase giving access nowadays to the Church level.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚: obviously from one Necropolis.

Last recorded location: Copied by D. Morelli in 1960 at place of re-use in the East Church. Seen and photographed by D. Roques between 1971 and 1973 at the same place. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2004 at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Stratôi fille d'Eubatas.

English translation

Stratoi daughter of Eubatas.

Italian translation

Stratòi figlia di Eubatas.

Commentary

The base has no footprints on top and has mouldings only on three sides, so it should be a funerary base able to support a half-statue. As it has been found in the East Church, it had been plausibly brought there, perhaps for re-use, from one near Necropolis, either Eastern or Southern. The base is not mentioned among the carved fittings found in the East Church by Ward-Perkins – Goodchild – Reynolds 2003, unlike IGCyr097700² and IGCyr105110², probably because the two latter were re-cut for a well identified re-use in the church. The present base, although having lost its moulding, was not finished for an identifiable re-use.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr105600 Epitaph

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