Support: White marble stele, slightly tapering, with upper moulded cornice badly chipped and left upper angle lost (with moulding w: 0.44 × h: 1.17 × d: 0.335).

Layout: Inscribed (w: 0.335 × h: 1.11 × d: 0.29); inscription begins at 0.13 under moulding.

Letters: 0.03; carefully cut letters.

Date: Fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1933 at Cyrene ➚: Necropolis (Oliverio); perhaps North Necropolis (Thorn).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 inShahat: on terrace in front of ancient Sculpture Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Erilokhos fils de Damis.

English translation

Erilochos son of Damis.

Italian translation

Erilochos figlio di Damis.

Commentary

The stele was given again as unpublished, without illustration and erroneously read, by Morelli as SECir, 286.

The Torns' suggestion that the stele might come from the North Necropolis is based upon the idea that Italian excavations before World War II took place only in that Necropolis. However funerary inscriptions have often been found fortuitously.

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