Epitaph
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Perhaps fourth century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], p. 36 n. 6 (ph.), whence [...], 47.2182; [...] 086700. Cf. [...], p. 148, whence [...], 2010.634; [...], catalogue B.44. Erroneously republished as if new as IGCyr114400.

Ἀρθμιάδας Ἀριστοφάνευς

Ἀρθμιάδας[^a1] Ἀριστοφάνευς[^a2]

[^a1: Ἀρθμιάδας | ωρομιαδας | αρομιαδας | Δρομιάδας]

[^a2: Ἀριστοφάνευς | Ἀριστοφάνους]

Arthmiadas fils d'Aristophanès.

Arthmiadas son of Aristophanes.

Arthmiadas figlio di Aristophanes.

The surface of this base is smoothened by some sort of re-use and bears many concretions, showing a long period of exposure outside. Mohamed and Reynolds, when publishing it, did not know where it came from and suspected the South Necropolis, because building works for the modern town of Shahat produced a lot of bases during the last decades. However the Thorns gathered from Cassels' archives a clumsy copy of the inscription mentioned in his publication ([...], p. 38), without transcription, as lying '100 m. N.W.' of tomb E1'. This information was also checked by M. Belzic in the Libyan Studies archive at Leicester in 2014.

A different interpretation of the Cassels' copies had lead Dobias-Lalou to guess in 2010 at line 1 a non-attested name whose form would not be impossible. Without connecting this testimony with the stone she had herself studied in 1983, she produced in 2017 a false entry IGCyr114400, which has been deleted for the present edition.