Description: Upper left-hand side of a medium-grained white marble stele with a greyish cast and stained brown
(w:
0.111 x h:
0.199 x d:
0.06).
Text: Inscribed on face, which has a small crack across it about half-way down.
Letters: 0.015. Not datable.
Date: First century BCE - third century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: area F14/G14 Test, 2.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations
(Inv. no. 78-109)
Commentary
Presumably the first syllable of the name or patronymic Hippias, Hippokrates, vel sim., either of the dedicator or of the person whose statue was dedicated.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 2012, A.52, whence SEG 62.1795.24.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).