Description: Marble base with writing on five faces and reliefs on two
(w:
0.62 x h:
0.62 x d:
0.355). On the front is a relief of a man driving a quadriga, and,
on the left face, of a boy leading a horse;
inscribed on the front face with C.76, C.77, C.78,
C.79, C.80, C.81, on the left face with
C.82, on the right with C.84, on the top with C.85,
on the reverse with C.83. A large square hole has been cut in the back which was only semi-dressed.
Text: Graffito to the right of the relief, in two different hands.
Letters: Square sigma, and cursive omega, intermittently.
Date: First - second century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene: House of Hesychios.
Found in 1934.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Teimokrates. Melanippos (scil. son) of Etearchos.
Commentary
No comment (2020).
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 164.a and fig. 129 (from T. VI 1ff).
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
