Description: Right-hand side of a soft limestone base
(w:
0.32 x h:
0.20 x d:
0.13)
with traces of moulding at top and bottom.
Text: Damaged along all sides, inscribed on the face.
Letters: , perhaps first century BCE: 0.021 - 0.022.
Date: Probably first century BCE
Findspot:
Cyrene: Found in 1969 in the
Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, in excavations: area 2,1,2.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations
(Inv. no. 69.41)
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 2012
. (scil. son or daughter?) of [ . . . -]archos [for their ?virtue] and their piety towards [the goddesses (?gods)], (scil. set up by) the Cyrenaeans.
Commentary
Line 1 probably gives the end of the patronymic of the person honoured.
Line 2: the standard practice at the likely date was to single out qualities for praise, something like εὔνοια or ἀρετή with the piety which we seem to have here - JMR has assumed that here it was piety to the goddesses, but more commonly it was piety to all gods, therefore τὸς θεός.
Line 4 contained the name of those who paid the honour, and one would expect ΚΥΡΑΝΑΙΟΙ, the Cyrenaeans; but the surviving letters are not absolutely clear. For civic honours paid in the Sanctuary see on C.445.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 2012, A.20, whence SEG 62.1792.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).