Description: Marble stele, tapered, wider below and narrower above.
Text: Inscribed on the face; above is a garland of intertwined vine branches, 0.59.
Letters: Lines 1 and 3, 0.089; line 2, 0.093; lines 4 ff., 0.058-0.063.
Date: First to second centuries CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
South Necropolis, S.4;
first recorded in 1819.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
8: Masson discusses the letter Y, found at the end of line 8 and perhaps line 10 (very uncertain) and 12; in his view these are errors by the stonecutter.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Klearchos (scil. son) of Klearchos; klearchos (scil. son) of Klearchos; Klearchos (scil. son) of Pareubatas; Pareubatas (scil. son) of Philoxenos; Philoxenos (scil. son) of Kallippos; Kallippos (scil. son) of Aleximachos; Aleximachos (scil. son) of Aladdeir; Aladdeir (scil. son) of Battos.
Commentary
The genealogy is carefully constructed to assert descent from two men - Aalddeir and Battos - with names which, as Masson puts it, evoke the ancient dynasties of Cyrenaica.
Bibliography: Letronne-Bourville, 1848, VII, from which, and from a copy made in 1819 by Fr. Pacifico da Monte Cassiano and passed to Pietro Negri, the Sardinian
consul in Tripoli, CIG, Vol.III, 5147, whence SGDI, 4859; recorded in a painting by Porcher (1861), BM catalogue 1865,0208,633, on which Thorn, 2007, 197; republished from a copy and squeeze by A.Laronde Masson, 1974. For the tomb, Cassels, 1955, S.4, Thorn, 2009, 206-7
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)
Images
Fig. 1. Face (September 1991, Dorothy Thorn)
Fig. 2. Face (September 1991, Dorothy Thorn)
Fig. 3. Face, upper part (September 1991, Dorothy Thorn)
Fig. 4. Face, centre (September 1991, Dorothy Thorn)
Fig. 5. Face, lower part (September 1991, Dorothy Thorn)