Support: A seated statue of white marble, probably Parian (h: 1.45); the inscription runs on the plinth in front (w: 0.56 × h: 0.12).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines with axial display.

Letters: 0.02; careful and regular letters with ends of strokes deepening, slightly slanting sigma, smaller omicron, phi with flattened loop.

Date: Probably third century BC (lettering, context).

Findspot: Discovered before 2019 at Cyrene ➚: South Necropolis, amongst blocks tipped out in the courtyard of tomb S197 Cassels.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚: , South Necropolis, tomb S198

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum Seen by O. Mei, head of the Mission of Urbino, in April 2019 in the Cyrene Museum. Not seen by the IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Created from documentation of the Chieti mission and first edition.

French translation

Pherô fille de Semer.

English translation

Phero daughter of Semer.

Italian translation

Pherò figlia di Semer.

Commentary

The feminine name Phero is a short form of the numerous compounds in Φερε/ο-, amongst which Φερονίκα and Φερενίκα are of use in the region. Her father's name, only attested in Cyrenaica, belongs to the Libyan stock and is attested in the fourth and third centuries.

Moreover, we know also a funerary base for a woman with the same name and same father's name (IGCyr105700²). It is impossible to guess whether the two monuments (and the two letterings) are contemporaneous or should be separated by a span of time. The question of a possible relationship is treated by the other authors of the publication with archaeological arguments.

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