Support: Part of a white, perhaps Parian, marble stele, broken at top and bottom and also on both sides (w: 0.33 × h: 0.42 × d: 0.19).

Layout: Inscribed on front face; on the reverse face, traces of one letter might show a reuse in the Roman times.

Letters: 0.022; circular letters: 0.018; disymmetrical nu, dotted theta, large delta.

Date: End of fifth or first half of fourth century BC

Findspot: Found before 1995 at Cyrene ➚: North Necropolis (Haleg Shaloof).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 3573. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1997 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[Di?]odotos fils de Xanthippos.

English translation

[Di?]odotos son of Xanthippos.

Italian translation

[Di?]odotos figlio di Xanthippos.

Commentary

The lost part at the beginning of line 1 is slightly shorter than at line 2, where Ξάνθιππος should be restored with certainty. The two letters ΔΙ are thus an appropriate guess.

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