Support: White marble fragmentary base, (w: 0.35 × h: 0.34 × d: 0.215); broken away at left, with a hole on top.

Layout: Inscribed on front face.

Letters: 0.025.

Date: Fourth to third centuries BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found on April 2nd, 1911 by the Norton team at Cyrene ➚: North Necropolis, tomb N21.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by D. Morelli in 1961 on the terrace of the ancient Shahat, Cyrene Sculpture Museum. Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[---]takha fille de [---]kles.

English translation

[---]tacha daughter of [---]kles.

Italian translation

[---]tacha figlia di [---]kles.

Commentary

The tomb may be identified from Uhlenbrock's and Santucci's researches in Norton's archive.

Robinson's reading gave way to a ghost-name *Ταχακλῆς, admitted by Schwyzer (DGE 231,7), Fraser – Matthews 1987, and also Bechtel 1917, p. 419, who however hold it for uncertain and guessed that there were two names.

Morelli, not aware of Robinson's publication, was right in his description.

Masson and Marengo linked both publications and the latter confirmed the reading.

For a name ending in -ταχα, the most plausible restoration could be a feminine counterpart to the Cretan name Βρόταχος, for which see Masson 1990, p. 452 (paper of 1984).

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