Description: Marble base with socket for a statue on top
(w:
0.74 x h:
0.20 x d:
0.59).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century CE; line 1, 0.035; lines 2-3, 0.04.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Sanctuary of Apollo; found before 1941
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
To Demeter and Kore, the Cyrenaeans (scil. dedicated the statue of) the Heroine, Kudimacha (scil. daughter) of Klearchos, because of her virtue.
Commentary
A homonym, perhaps identical, is listed as priestess of Hera in C.103, line 13. The use of ἡρώις in line 1 indicates that she was dead when the statue was erected, as the dedication to Chthonic goddesses confirms (see Dobias-Lalou, art.cit.).
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 51 p. 249 (from T. XI 70), whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1964.562; discussed, Dobias-Lalou, 2006 with fig. 3, whence SEG 56.2033; further discussion by Dobias-Lalou, 2016b, 169-170.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds VIII.99)
Fig. 2. Face
Fig. 3. Face