Support: White marble rectangular base with plain moulding at top and bottom on three sides, broken off at left (w: 0.82 × h: 0.30 × d: 0.60).

Layout: Inscribed in one line on front face etween the mouldings (w: 0.64 × h: 0.12 × d: 0.51).

Letters: 0.03.

Date: Second half of fourth or first half of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1983 at Cyrene ➚: probably from South Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2001 at Cyrene ➚: inside archaeological enclosure North of Caesareum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[Nika]thla fille d'Aiglanôr.

English translation

[Nika]thla daughter of Aiglanor.

Italian translation

[Nika]thla figlia di Aiglanor.

Commentary

Reading the first preserved letter as an omicron, the first editors thought of a woman's name of the group corresponding to masculine compounds in -λαος, of which the suggested Κριτολᾶ is only one amongst other possibilities. We know in fact of a woman of that name, also daughter of an Aiglanor, who was priestess of Hera in the first century AD (see IRCyr2020 C.129). However, the gap in time is too big to allow any relation between them. In fact, C. Dobias-Lalou reads the first preserved letter as a theta with a large circle and a thin central dot, whereas both omicrons are smaller. The masculine name Νίκαθλος is well attested and typically Cyrenaican (see Reynolds – Masson 1976, p. 92). So a feminine Νικάθλα is a guess matching exactly the gap.

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