Support: Fragment of white marble basin (w: 0.3 × h: 0.06 × d: 0.04).

Layout: Inscribed on the rim (height 0.03), to be read from the exterior.

Letters: 0.022; archaic letters: H stands for aspirate, omicron is a dotted circle.

Date: End of the sixth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1960 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 501. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 and again 1993 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[---]os fils d'Eumolpos [---].

English translation

[---]os son of Eumolpos [---].

Italian translation

[---]os figlio di Eumolpos [---].

Commentary

Pugliese thought this might be a fragment referred to by Ferri 1923, p. 9 and n. 2, which we suspect now to be IGCyr118900². So Pugliese's hypothesis should be dropped.

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