Support: White marble base with light plain moulding below on three sides, partly broken off at left back (w: 0.395 × h: 0.14 × d: 0.295).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on front face.

Letters: 0.017 to 0.02; light rests of guidelines, letters still rubricated, deeply and carefully cut, with slight serifs: dotted theta, large oblique bars of kappa, rather large loop of rho, slanting sigma, calice-shaped upsilon, large omega.

Date: Between 270 and 260 BC (Rosamilia) (lettering, prosopography).

Findspot: Found before 1935 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, in the so-called Agora of the Gods («presso il muro del Piazzale, nell'angolo con i βωμοί», Oliverio) .

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 641. Seen in 1960 by G. Pugliese Carratelli in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1997 at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Mnasarchos fils de Theοkhrèstos a consacré (scil. ce monument) durant sa prêtrise.

English translation

Mnasarchos son of Theοchrestos dedicated (scil. this monument) while being priest.

Italian translation

Mnasarchos figlio di Theοchrestos ha dedicato (scil. questo monumento) quando era sacerdote.

Commentary

For the family of the dedicant, see Laronde 1987, pp. 54, 121, who dated the inscription down to ca. 225 BC. Rosamilia 2023 in turn dates it back to 270/260 BC.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr098000 Dedication

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