Description: Plain marble base
Text: Inscribed on two faces, a to the left of b
Letters: Lunate omega, sigma; a, line over the final number.
Date: Perhaps first century BCE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
North Necropolis, in the rock-cut tomb called the Kinissieh, N.66; recorded in 1850.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot 1861.
Apparatus
a.1: ΦΙΛωΙϹ Vattier de Bourville, 1850a.1-2: φίλῳ ἱέρᾶς Sammelbuch The first line is possibly misread for Φίλων, or the whole for Φιλώτας.
b.1: ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕΕ Vattier de Bourville, 1850; ΑΓΑΘΟΚΛΕ Smith-Porcher, 1864 ; the text was perhaps Ἀγαθόκλεα or Ἀγαθοκλέους rather than Ἀγαθοκλῆς.
b.2: ΕΚΕ Vattier de Bourville, 1850; LΚ Smith-Porcher, 1864
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(a): Philon . . . aged 8. (b): Agathokles, aged 25
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: a: Vattier de Bourville, 1850, 585, whence Sammelbuch, I.1739. b: an unclear sketch, Vattier de Bourville, 1850, 585, Smith-Porcher, 1864, 33.For the tomb, Cassels, 1955, N.66, cf. 417, Thorn, 2009, 45.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).