Support: Presumably marble stele with double moulding at top, originally placed on the platform over the roof of a temple-built tomb; from Tomlinson's sketch: upper moulding (w: 0.36 × h: 0.03), lower moulding (w: 0.35 × h: 0.035), below moulding w: 0.30 × h: height unknown.

Layout: Inscribed, as it seems from the sketch, on the upper moulding.

Letters: Height unknown; rather uneven letters (Cassels).

Date: Fourth or third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found on March 20th, 1954 by J. Cassels at Cyrene ➚: East Necropolis, tomb E10 Cassels.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by R. Tomlinson in 1956 in situ in the East Necropolis. Seen at the same place by L. Beschi in 1961. Not found by J.C. Thorn in 2001. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors.

Apparatus

French translation

Polydamas fils d'Euainos.

English translation

Polydamas son of Euainos.

Italian translation

Polydamas figlio di Euainos.

Commentary

Cassels in his 1955 publication only gave a diplomatic transcription of the inscription on the stele, which should have stood on top of the rectangular built tomb and suggested a date. The Tomlinson archive, published by the Thorns in 2009, has a useful sketch.

In 1961, R.G. Goodchild saw the stele amongst the ruins and unearthed a mourning half-figure, roughly contemporary,so that Beschi was able to add them to his publication (n. 24 of his catalogue of statues) .

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