Support: Fragment of marble panel broken on all sides, but for a small part of the righthand edge at back, showing a moulding on rim of back face (w: 0.215 × h: 0.145 × d: 0.045 at the deepest).

Layout: Inscribed on front face.

Letters: 0.03; carefully cut, with serifs; non-slanting sigma, rather large omicron.

Date: Perhaps second half of second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1926 at Cyrene ➚: plausibly in the Sanctuary of Apollo (see commentary).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 156. Seen in 1979 by Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

(scil. Un tel fils de )[---]kis, (scil. Un tel fils de )[---]rsilas.

English translation

(scil. So-and-so son of )[---]kis, (scil. So-and-so son of )[---]rsilas.

Italian translation

(scil. Il tale figlio di )[---]kis, (scil. il tale figlio di )[---]rsilas.

Commentary

Pugliese Carratelli published this inscription from a drawing by Oliverio, hesitantely adding that the stone came from the excavations of the 'Piazzale', a word that means either the lower terrace of the Sanctuary of Apollo or the Fountain Terrace. At IGCyr, we thought that it should have been found either in the Lower Terrace in 1925 or rather on the Upper Terrace in 1929 or 1930. However, Rosamilia 2023 very cleverly argues that the first page of Oliverio's sketchbook (X.4) mentioned by Pugliese Carratelli follows immediately the page with IGCyr096000², which was found in 1926 in the Trajanic Baths of the Sanctuary of Apollo. Therefore, it is very plausible that this inscription was found during the same period in the Sanctuary, if no it the same building.

For line 1, no Greek name in -κιος is attested in Cyrene, whereas a series of names in -κις does. So both endings should be taken as genitives of fathers' names.

For line 2, we know of a Cyrenaean Θερσίλας at IGCyr014700², line 35. However, other compounds in -σίλας are also possible.

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