Support: White marble tapering stele with a plain moulding on top of all four sides; still reddish from earth, chipped off on the left edge of the face and at the lower right angle; re-used on the opposite face for three epitaphs of Roman date (w: 0.20-0.23 × h: 0.60 × d: 0.155- 0.17).

Layout: Inscribed on the face (w: 0.20-0.22 × h: 0.54 × d: 0.155-0.17), beginning at 0.09 under the moulding; both lines were aligned following the left edge.

Letters: 0.02 without serifs; slightly dissymmetrical nu, broad alpha, xi with central hasta, large omicron.

Date: Probably fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 2010 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded; plausibly from one Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inventory number missing. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Phoinix fils d'Antipatros.

English translation

Phoinix son of Antipatros.

Italian translation

Phoinix figlio di Antipatros.

Commentary

Whereas Antipatros is common in Cyrenaica at all periods, Phoinix is here attested for the first time in the region. However it is no rare name in Greece, referring to the ethnic (Bechtel 1917, p. 544) and probably also to the mythologic figure of Achilleus' tutor.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr132200 Epitaph

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