Description: Low marble
base with egg and dart moulding above and below the fascia
(w:
0.652 x h:
0.35 x d:
0.382)
Text:
Text 1 inscribed on the front face (ll.1-2) and on the lower moulding; text 2 inscribed on the cornice;
text 3 inscribed on the face, below 1, line 2; text 4 graffito on the face, following 3.
Letters: No measurements; 2-4 in much smaller letters than 1. L for ἔτους.
Date: All: First century BCE - early first century CEText 2, perhaps 19/18 BCEText 3, 40/41 CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
'Quartiere centrale, all'esterno di Casa Parisi (parete sud)' (Gasperini).
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
(1): Igisan (scil. son) of Antimachos, Antimachos (scil. son) of Antimachos (scil. dedicated this) for Hermes and Herakles
(2): Year 13, of Kallimachos son of Theudosios
(2): Year 71, Polyaratos (scil. son) of Iason
(2): Iason (scil. son) of Polyaratos
Commentary
1: The dedication indicates an ephebic monument; see Luni, loc. cit..
2: Gasperini took this as a dating reference to the Priest of Apollo
Bibliography: Gasperini, 1971, 4, note 16; Luni, 1976 p.241 no.9 and fig. 11, whence mentioned SEG 32.1607
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Roueché).
Images
None available (2020).