Description: Lower part of a marble base, moulded below, broken in three pieces, (w:
1.03 x h:
0.47 x d:
0.285),and inscribed apparently on 3 occasions: firstly (perhaps) with this dedication;
then with the list C.431; then overcut with graffiti, C.433.
Text: A formal text inscribed on the moulding below C.431
Letters: First century BCE - Augustan: 0.03.
Date: First century BCE - Augustan
Findspot:
Cyrene:
about 150m from the City wall, south west of the Agora on the road to Beida (so Oliverio, notes);
found in 1915.
Original location: Given the findspot it is no doubt presumably a stray from the Gymnasium beside the Caesareum.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
Timarchos (scil. son) of Zeuximachos, to Hermes and Herakles
Arabic translation
Translation by: Muna Abdelhamed
تيمارخوس (بن) زيفكسيماخوس، (إهداء) لهرمس و هيراكليس
Commentary
This text may have accompanied the list C.431, or preceded it.
Bibliography: Pugliese-Carratelli, 1961, 6, p. 19, whence SEG 20.740, PHI 324496, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1962.363, p. 218; Lüderitz-Reynolds, 1983, 6. Discussed, Gasperini, 1985, 174
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
