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C.27. Caption for a statue of Thalia

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. Mouded base, approximately oval w: 0.49 x h: 0.10. There are slight traces of the feet and robe of a statue on top.
Text: Inscribed on the base.
Letters: Second to third centuries. Atypical at Cyrene and possibly cut elsewhere. 0.025: lunate epsilon; 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

Interpretive

Θάλεια

Diplomatic

ΘΑΛΕΙΑ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Thalia

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

None available (2020).