Description: The greater part of a moulded marble
base, recomposed from four pieces
(together, w:
0.62 x h:
0.33 x d:
0.34), with texts on three faces. Front face,
C.51, C.52 and C.53;
left face, C.54;
reverse face, C.55 and C.56.
Text:
Inscribed on the front face
Letters: 0.03.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
House of Jason Magnus, precise findspot unrecorded, apparently to the East;
found before 1941.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Istros (scil. son) of Serapion, for Hermes and Herakles
Commentary
This, the original dedication on the stone, indicates an ephebic monument; for Hermes and Herakles as gods of the gymnasium see H. Siska, De Mercurio ceterisque deis ad artem gymnicam pertinentibus (1933) esp. p. 3 f. and 38f.
Bibliography: Luni, 1976 p.241 no.9bis, whence SEG 32.1607, PHI 324552.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds I.87.4)
Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds I.87.5)_001a "Detail")
Fig. 3. Detail
Fig. 4. Monument (Department of Antiquities)
Fig. 5. Monument (Department of Antiquities)