Support: Marble base with mouldings of eggs and darts (w: 0.62 × h: 0.42 × d: 0.44).

Layout: Inscribed on front face.

Letters: 0.042.

Date: Third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1933 at Cyrene ➚: Necropolis (Oliverio): presumably North Necropolis (Thorn).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor (CDL).

French translation

Dioskouridès fils de Drimakos.

English translation

Dioskourides son of Drimakos.

Italian translation

Dioskourides figlio di Drimakos.

Commentary

The deceased's name has a non-dialectal form and his father's name is not attested elsewhere in Cyrenaica. So this family shows some influences from abroad.

The Thorns attributed this base to the North Necropolis on the assumption that the Italian archaeologists worked only in that part of the necropoleis before World War II.

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