Support: White marble base, with egg and dart mouldings on top, broken off below (w: 0.64 × h: 0.19 × d: 0.32).

Layout: Inscribed on the face, probably in 2 lines (w: 0.61 × h: 0.10).

Letters: 0.07; serifs, carefully cut, phi with a quite big loop.

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

Findspot: Found before 1979 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚: probably in an unidentified Necropolis.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Philôn (scil. fils de) [---].

English translation

Philon (scil. son of) [---].

Italian translation

Philon (scil. figlio di) [---].

Commentary

This base is presumably a funerary one, although it was impossible to check its upper side. Most bases collected lately in the Museum come from tombs around the town of Cyrene.

Philon is one of the most common names in Cyrene; without his father's name, it is impossible to try to relate him to any already known person.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr121500 Epitaph

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