Support: White marble base with egg and dart moulding above (partially buried) with front face damaged (w: 0.73 × h: 0.28 × d: 0.48).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.05.

Date: Perhaps third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found at an unknown date at Cyrene ➚: probably from the South Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors.

French translation

Arist[is?] fils de Patri[---].

English translation

Arist[is?] son of Patri[---].

Italian translation

Arist[is?] figlio di Patri[---].

Commentary

From the bad photograph available, it is difficult to know how many letters are missing at right. If at l. 1 only two letters are missing, Ἄριστις is a very good restoration. In that case, only two letters would be missing also at l. 2, where Πάτρις, although unattested, would be a dialectally regular short form of compounds like Πατρόφιλος.

On the other hand, if there is enough space to admit Πάτριππος as the father's name, as suggested by Reynolds, then Ἄριστις would be rather short for the son's name and one would suggest some longer name, such as Ἀριστέας or even Ἀρίστιππος.

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