Description: Base of white marble, perhaps Thasian, with a rectangular trough
hollowed out on the underside; there is a hole for an attachment on the top
linked to the edge by a channel for pouring in metal.
(w:
0.45 x h:
0.205 x d:
0.40).
Text: Inscribed on one face, which is chipped on all edges and badly damaged below.
Letters: Third century CE; line 1, 0.04, line 2, 0.037, line 3, 0.03, line 4, 0.025. Varying forms, lunate sigma, omega. In lines 1
and 2 letters are broad, and largely well spaced; in lines 3 and 4 they are narrow and more closely packed.
Date: Probably third century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
North Necropolis: near Tomb N.1; recorded in 1974.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum, inv. no. 3469
(Inv. no. 3469)
Apparatus
3-4: Supplements by Dobias-Lalou3: [κὲ] Ἱαροκλίης Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997
4: Perhaps οἰ[κήτορα] (CD-L)
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Flavius Antoninianos son of Kasianos: A man of Ephesos, founded by Androklos, a strong fighter and an invited resident (i.e. of Cyrene)
Commentary
The text has metrical elements.
The same man in C.599, Antonianos, also called Moros (the fool), an Ephesian.
Line 3: The reference to Androklos as founder is typical at Ephesos, particularly in verse inscriptions, e.g IEph 2064 (whence PHI 249786)
Bibliography: Mohamed-Reynolds, 1997, 4, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1999.623, SEG 47.2199, AE 1997.1573,
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).