Support: Fragment of a marble panel, broken off on top, at right and below (w: 0.10 × h: 0.065 × d: 0.055).

Layout: Inscribed on one face on two lines with alternate inset.

Letters: 0.017; clumsily cut; omicron approximately circular or losange, pi with equal hastae, classical sigma.

Date: Perhaps second or third century AD (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1941 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by J.M. Reynolds at an unknown date in Shahat: in the Cyrene Museum. Not seen by GVCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from J.M. Reynolds' notes.

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

لا يمكن ترجمته بشكل جيد

Commentary

The date is of J.M. Reynolds' responsability.

The third letter of line 1, which J.M. Reynolds transcribed as a rho, would produce a desperate reading. The photograph shows a shape different from the following rho and seems to allow a gamma. The reading would then produce the beginning of a sentence that would necessarily follow at least another one now lost.

At the beginning of line 2, given the shifted inset, we should have the beginning of a pentameter. If so, a long syllable is necessary, whence the proposed correction.

Metrical analysis: οnly the layout of line 2 is a hint for an elegiac couplet; the placement of this tiny fragment amongst the verse-inscriptions might thus be questionable.

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Fig. 1. Face of gvcyr056 Unclear

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