Description: Marble block, complete at either end, from the plinth of a statue, traces of which remain on the upper side;
reused as part of a larger base
(w:
0.62 x h:
0.175 x d:
0.465).
Text: Originally inscribed on the face with IGCyr104200;
reinscribed on the short side with text running in the opposite direction, presumably along several blocks.
Letters: First century BC, 0.027, with apices.
Date: First century B. C.
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Fountain Terrace behind and to the South of the
Fountain of Philothales;
found in 1929.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou several times between 1983 and 2004 in the
Sanctuary of Apollo, east of the Cave of the Priests.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
. . . ] of Timagenes [ . . . ] of Hippias [ . . .
Commentary
Morelli indicates the findspot as "Piazzale, a destra del Santuario di Apollo, guardando verso lo Strategeion".
Bibliography: SECir, 1961-1962, 248b.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds)
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Reynolds)
Fig. 2. Face (Reynolds)