Support: Rectangular block of gray-blue marble bearing on the rear of upper side two half feet-shaped cavities and a canal for pouring melted metal; this block was thus part of an originally deeper block or monument, at least in its later use (w: 1.02 × h: 0.29 × d: 0.67).

Layout: Inscribed on face, probably in three lines, out of which lines 1 and 2 were re-cut as IRCyr2020 C.62 in a shallow rasura. The former lines 1 and 2 seem to have been about as long as the new ones, the whole being centered along vertical axis.

Letters: 0.025, with slight apices; small differences with the later script: alpha with lower bar, kappa with larger oblique bars, broader nu, omicron as large as the other letters.

Date: Probably end of second century or beginning of first BC

Findspot: First seen by N. Adams in 2003 at Cyrene ➚: re-used in a wall closing to the North the so-called Hall of the Orthostats, when its former facade was incorporated into the IVth century AD tower that blocked the Street of Battos.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 at findspot, along the Street of Battos.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

⟦[Un tel, fils d'un tel a été honoré]⟧, par les Cyrénéens.

English translation

⟦[So-and-so son of So-and-so was honored]⟧ by the Cyrenaeans.

Italian translation

⟦[Il tale, figlio del tale è stato onorato]⟧ dai Cirenei.

Arabic translation

من قبل الكيرينيين [[تم تكريمهم فلان وفلان ]〛

Commentary

The formula ending with Κυραναῖοι is that of a honorific inscription and the style of the monument, presumably a very large base with a statue, lets us suppose that the honorandus was either a Ptolemy or a member of the Ptolemaic court. The stone was erased and re-cut, probably some decades later, at the very beginning of the Roman domination over Cyrenaica. The style of the lettering is quite similar to the stele for Aiglanor (IGCyr065000²).

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr091800 Honours

Fig. 2. Top of igcyr091800 Honours

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