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.
Moulded base
w:
0.56 x h:
0.105 x d:
0.21
carrying the statue of the muse, complete except for the head, carrying a tragic mask in the left hand.
Text: Inscribed on the base.
Letters: Second to third centuries. Atypical at Cyrene and possibly cut elsewhere. 0.035 lunate epsilon; rubricated.
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
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. Statue, inscription on plinth (Reynolds VIII.31)
Fig. 2. Statue, front (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 3. Plinth (2008, H.Walda)