Support: White marble base with plain mouldings on top and below w: 0.54 × h: 0.24 × d: 0.06), reddish from earth; broken off at the lower right angle. Recut for secondary use (see commentary).

Layout: Inscribed in one line on the front, below the upper moulding.

Letters: Estimated 0.024 (smaller omicron); not deeply, but carefully cut with small serifs; slightering mu and sigma.

Date: Probably second half of fourth century BC (lettering, context).

Findspot: Brought to the Department of Antiquities in August 2017; found at Cyrene ➚: South Necropolis, area named Al Baggara, during building works.

Place of origin: Perhaps area of findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 8525. Not seen by IGCyr team. Studied by C. Dobias-Lalou through photographs provided by the Department of Antiquities when the stone was presented.

Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (CDL).

French translation

Timô fille de Timoklès.

English translation

Timo daughter of Timocles.

Italian translation

Timò figlia di Timokles.

Commentary

This base, known to us only through photographs and archive of the Department of Antiquities, is very similar to the one bearing IGCyr122000², i.e. a plain type of funerary bases, the dimensions of which are approximately 2 x 1 cubits. Its back was later re-cut so as to form a semi-column, able to adorn the sides of a niche or rather of a naiskos.

The feminine name Timo is attested in Cyrenaica only as the by-name of a priestess of Artemis in the Roman imperial period (IRCyr2020 C.221). However such names ending with -ώι are frequent in the region and this one is derived from the father's name. For the latter, two men bearing the name Timocles are known, one in the fourth century BC (IGCyr0081200²), the other at the beginning of the third century (IGCyr065210²). One or the other might be related with Timo, but we cannot push the hypothesis further ahead.

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Images

Fig. 1. Face of igcyr135000 Epitaph

Fig. 2. Front and back of igcyr135000 Epitaph

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