Support: Fragment of oblong block with a plain moulding on top (dimensions unknown); a sculpted or drawn figure of 3/4 male body with a large belly is to be seen between the two names.

Layout: Inscribed in one line at left and right of the figure.

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: Perhaps, third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Copied by J.-R. Pacho in 1825 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor (HB).

Apparatus

French translation

[---]ylliôn fils de Xèn[---].

English translation

[---]yllion son of Xen[---].

Italian translation

[---]yllion figlio di Xen[---].

Commentary

Both the design of the stone and its position among monumental dedications lead to a dedicatory rather than funerary interpretation of what seems a couple of personal names.

Marengo 1991, p. 532 cautiously did not keep the former restoration of the very rare and late name Endymion and let open the possibility to read either one mu or two lambdas as first preserved letter of the first name. The latter possibility might lead to read [Θρασ]υλλίων, a name already attested at Cyrene (IGCyr081200², l. 9 and IGCyr084000², l. 43). However no prosopographical clue allows to push this ahead.

For names in Cyrenaica derived with -υλο- and related suffixes, see Masson 1983 (also Masson 1990, 409-412).

The father's name should belong to the group of Ξην(ο)-, for which there exist various suffixes and endings. Reading nu for the third letter seems plausible from Pacho's drawing.

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