Support: White marble console with a projecting triple moulding above and a small rib below on three sides (w: 0.36 × h: 0.118 × d: 0.24).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on front face under the moulding (w: 0.25 × h: 0.055 × d: 0.175).

Letters: 0.01; thickening ends of carefully cut letters; kappa with large oblique bars, slightly slanting mu, small omicron, slanting sigma.

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

Findspot: Found before 1960 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 487. Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 at the same place; seen again in 2010, when the left angle of the moulding had been broken off.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Kallimakhos fils d'Hérakleitos.

English translation

Kallimachos son of Herakleitos.

Italian translation

Kallimachos figlio di Herakleitos.

Commentary

This stone, which was said to be a base by Morelli is in fact a console. This shape is unique and does not help to place it into any series. However it seems to be votive rather than funerary.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr106300 Dedication (?)

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