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.
Approximately rectangular base, unmoulded,
(w:
0.45 - 0.54 x h:
0.10 x d:
0.36)
carrying the figure of a muse complete except for the head, carrying a lyre.
Text: Inscribed on the base.
Letters: Second to third centuries. Atypical at Cyrene and possibly cut elsewhere; 0.05; 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
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Melpomene
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, front (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 2. Plinth (2008, H.Walda)