Support: White marble base with plain mouldings above and below on three sides (w: 0.61 × h: 0.28 × d: 0.35).

Layout: Inscribed in one line on front face (w: 0.535 × h: 0.145) just under the upper moulding.

Letters: 0.032; large alpha, lambda and delta, small omicron, slanting mu.

Date: Third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1938 at Cyrene ➚: plausibly from an unidentified Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen by Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 in Shahat: in front of the ancient Sculpture Museum. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 at the same place. Seen again by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 in the courtyard of the new Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Thalôn fils d'Arkhenomidas.

English translation

Thalon son of Archenomidas.

Italian translation

Thalon figlio di Archenomidas.

Commentary

The base has the typical decoration of funerary bases, with mouldings only on three sides because it was placed against a wall inside the tomb or outside on the attic. We can thus presume that it came from an unidentified area in the Necropolis of Cyrene.

Although both rare, those names are not quite unknown at Cyrene.

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