Support: Square rock-cut chamber of native limestone, (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Scratched on the Western inner wall, to the left of the entrance door (a) and later more to the left (b).

Letters: a)0.11; b) 0.15; symmetrical nu, slanting sigma.

Date: Perhaps second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found by S. Ferri in 1922 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Budaraj.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found by J.M. Reynolds nor by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[Phil?]onidès (scil. est) beau!

English translation

[Phil?]onides (scil. is) fine!

Italian translation

[Phil?]onides (scil. è) bello!

Arabic translation

فيلونيديس (يكون) فاضلًا (جيدًا أونبيلًا).

Commentary

Ferri's drawing and explanation are quite clear: the first letters of the personal name have been later on erased and replaced by three obscure letters (b), which is nonsense, thus not translatable. The restoration now proposed, with three letters erased, fits better the space available.

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Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr052900 Pederastic acclamation

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