Description: One of a group of six marble bases for statues of the Muses, inscribed with
C.24, C.25, C.26,
C.27, C.28, C.29; a seventh is uninscribed.
Front part of an approximately oval base, without moulding,
w:
0.33 x h:
0.085.
One foot of the statue survives on top.
Text: Inscribed on the base.
Letters: Second to third centuries. Atypical at Cyrene and possibly cut elsewhere. 0.06, traces of rubrication.
Date: Second to third centuries CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Theatre 2;
found between 1962 and 1966.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene museum.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Ka]lliope
Commentary
For the statues see Menozzi, art.cit. For another group of the Muses, see on C.60. The context of both sets was probably connected with the Gymnasium.
Bibliography: Menozzi, 1998, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.611, SEG 48.2062
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face, upper first right (Department of Antiquities, F. 4444)