Support: White marble stele with upper moulding of eggs and darts chipped off (w: 0.33-0.365 × h: 0.98 × d: 0.28).

Layout: Inscribed twice on front face: lines 1 and 4 were cut first; later on, with a rather similar but less careful lettering, lines 2 and 3 were inscribed with the names inverted, so as to give the impression of a repeated text.

Letters: Hand 1: 0.017; large omicron, slanting sigma. Hand 2: 0.022; similar lettering; sigma of line 2 cut lower than the line.

Date: Fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: First copied by J.-R. Pacho in 1825 at Cyrene ➚: North Necropolis, tomb N 66, the so-called Kinissieh.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 608. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou on September 10th, 1997 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Argeios fils de Deinis. Argeios fils de Deinis.

English translation

Argeios son of Deinis. Argeios son of Deinis.

Italian translation

Argeios figlio di Deinis. Argeios figlio di Deinis.

Arabic translation

أرجيوس بن دينيوس. أرجيوس بن دينيوس

Commentary

Lines 2 and 3 seem to be a clumsy attempt to repeat the original cutting.

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