Support: White marble base reddish from earth, with plain mouldings above and below, the lower one chipped off (w: 0.86 × h: 0.25 × d: 0.57).

Layout: Inscribed on front face between the mouldings (w: 0.78 × h: 0.15), in two lines centred along vertical axis.

Letters: 0.035; rho and phi with small loop, the latter flattened, non-slanting sigma, slightly smaller omicron.

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

Findspot: Found before 1960 at Cyrene ➚: from one Necropolis; for a tempting localisation in tomb S197, see commentary.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, no inventory number found. Seen in 1960 by D. Morelli in Shahat: outside the ancient Sculpture Museum. Seen in 1993 by C. Dobias-Lalou inside the new Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CL).

French translation

Pherôi fille de Semèr.

English translation

Pheroi daughter of Semer.

Italian translation

Pheròi figlia di Semer.

Commentary

The daughter's name, now attested several times in Cyrenaica, is not known eslwhere. However, it belongs to a very common type of Greek feminine shortnames in -ώι, abbreviating compounds such as Φερονίκα. The father's name has a Libyan origin (see Masson 1976, p. 59).

One Semer is the father of a military officer in IGCyr094400², dated in the second half of the fourth century.

A seated statue from an identified tomb has been found in 2019 and bears on the plinth the same name and father's name. Although the dates may not be very different, it seems impossible to conclude that the woman mentioned on this base is the same as the one in IGCyr135500², originating from tomb S197.

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