Support: White marble base with mouldings of eggs and darts on top and below on three sides, wholly broken off at left (w: 0.26 × h: 0.51 × d: 0.26).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on the face between the mouldings (height 0.22).

Letters: Average 0.044 carefully cut with very small apices; slightly slanting sigma, horse-shoe omega.

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

Findspot: Seen between 2003 and 2009 by L. Cherstich at Cyrene ➚: South Necropolis, tomb S253 Cassels.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team; studied by C. Dobias-Lalou from Cherstich's photograph.

Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (CDL)

French translation

[---]bès fils de [---]sios.

English translation

[---]bes son of [---]sios

Italian translation

[---]bes figlio di [---]sios.

Commentary

This much mutilated base shows a man's name with a rather rare ending. The most plausible restoration would be Εὐσέβης, although this name, meaning 'Pious', is not very usual before the Roman imperial period. On the other hand, the father's name ended with -sios, for which there are a lot of possibilities. It is thus impossible to offer any restitution.

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