Support: Limestone base made out of two isodomic blocks with mouldings above and below and on top holes for four statues, placed along the back wall of a monumental naiskos (w: 2.67 × h: 0.29 × d: 0.595).

Layout: Inscribed on front face (high 0.13) between the mouldings: (a) beginning at 0.26 of left end, (b) at 0.49 of (a), (c) at 0.24 of (b), (d) at 0.21 of (c) and ending at 0.09 from right end, the whole in correspondance with the four places for statues.

Letters: 0.03.

Date: Last third of fourth century BC (lettering, prosopography).

Findspot: Excavated by L. Pernier in 1925 and again 1934 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, naiskos of the Carneadae.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by Dobias-Lalou in 2001 in situ, in the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Karnèdas fils d'Iasis, Iasis fils de Karnèdas, Itagos fils de Karnèdas, Krios fils de Karnèdas.

English translation

Karnedas son of Iasis, Iasis son of Karnedas, Itagos son of Karnedas, Krios son of Karnedas.

Italian translation

Karnedas figlio di Iasis, Iasis figlio di Karnedas, Itagos figlio di Karnedas, Krios figlio di Karnedas.

Commentary

For this monument, once erroneously called Offertory of the Mnesarchi (e.g. Goodchild 1971, p. 123), see now Valentini 1996. The inscriptions were published by Catani from Pernier's archive; for other information from the same provenance, see also Bartolini 2014, pp. 173-174. On the relation between the sculptures found in situ in the holes for statues and the inscriptions, see Rosamilia 2023, p. 82.

Since the present inscription contains only four names at the nominative case in correspondance with four statues, the monument is undoubtedly honorific; standing in the sanctuary, it was dedicated to Apollo and this might have been mentioned in another inscription cut on a lost part of the naiskos.

The names Itagos and Krios were explained by Dobias-Lalou 2010.

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Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr109900 Private honours

Fig. 2. Face, part d of igcyr109900 Private honours

Fig. 3. Squeeze of part a of igcyr109900 Private honours

Fig. 4. Squeeze of part b of igcyr109900 Private honours

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Fig. 6. Squeeze of part d of igcyr109900 Private honours

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