Support: Slightly tapering limestone stele with a moulding below the upper edge, broken in two adjacent pieces, with the front face in poor condition (w: 0.355 to 0.37 × h: 1.08 × d: 0.14 to 0.16).

Layout: Inscribed on front face at about 0.15 under the moulding; each line cut symmetrically along vertical axis.

Letters: 0.035 to 0.04; slight serifs, large circular letters, moderately slanting mu and sigma, phi with large vertical stroke and flattened loop.

Date: Second half of fourth or first half of third century BC

Findspot: Found before 1935 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene ➚, plausibly from a Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 346. Seen in 1960 by Pugliese Carratelli in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Seen in 1977 by C. Dobias-Lalou at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Philodamos fils de Satyros, achéen.

English translation

Philodamos son of Satyros, an Achaean.

Italian translation

Philodamos figlio di Satyros, acheo.

Commentary

Although Oliverio's photograph does not show the stone in a better condition than that of 1977, his readings were validated by Pugliese Carratelli (SECir, 92), who saw the stone in 1960. We thus accept their readings for the father's name (a quite common name in Achaia) and the ethnic.

The ethnic 'Achaean' supposes a terminus post quem in 280 BC.

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