Description: . Upper part of a badly damaged base or altar of white limestone
(w:
0.12 x h:
0.55 x d:
0.115). Crudely moulded above, with nine circular features on top and an unidentified sculptural relief on each side
Text: Ιinscribed on the badly broken face.
Letters: Letters, perhaps first century BCE, showing some cursive influence: 0.005; lunate epsilon and possibly W for omega; poorly
designed and aligned.
Date: Probably first century BCE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, found in 1974, in excavations.
Original location: Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations
(Inv. no. 74.963)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . ] to D[emeter] and Kore dedicated ? for his wife [ . . .
Commentary
L.4 probably contained the word γυναῖκος, in which case this is doubtless a dedication of his wife’s statue by a husband, perhaps after her death, cf C.450.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 2012, A.22, whence SEG 62.1795.10.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).