Support: White marble base with mouldings of egg and dart above and below, chipped and broken off at right end of front face (w: 0.75 × h: 0.44 × d: 0.57).

Layout: Inscribed on front face in two lines with letters spaced symmetrically along vertical axis.

Letters: 0.04; finely cut and ; very light serifs; rather small loop of pi, smaller omicron.

Date: Second half of fourth to first half of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found at Cyrene ➚: probably from South Necropolis (see commentary).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2004 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Pratomèdès fils d'Agônis.

English translation

Pratomedes son of Agonis.

Italian translation

Pratomedes figlio di Agonis.

Commentary

Found in the same tomb as the stele bearing IGCyr086000²; although there is no common element in the onomastics, both deceased were probably of the same family.

About the findspot, the first editors described a 'large rock-cut tomb in the South Cemetery near the modern cemetery of Sidi Mohamed Baggiuda', which is situated above tombe S4 Cassels. Belzic 2022, looking for a large rock-cut tomb in the area, argues that it might be one among the group of tombs S.250-260 Cassels, that is at a distance of ca. 1600 m. from the modern cemetery. This would make the description rather vague.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr086100 Epitaph

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