Support: White marble base broken off at right, with a large circular hole on top (w: 0.31 × h: 0.214 × d: 0.455).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on front face.

Letters: 0.03; careful letters without serifs, symmetrical nu slightly thickened at end of strokes, delta slightly smaller.

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

Findspot: Found before 1960 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, West of the Strategeion.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen in 1960 by Pugliese Carratelli at findspot. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 at findspot, in the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Nika[--- a consacré] (scil. ce monument) au titre de la dîme.

English translation

Nica[--- dedicated] (scil. this monument) as a tithe.

Italian translation

Nika[--- ha dedicato] (scil. questo monumento) come decima.

Commentary

A reduced formula τῶ δεῖνος δεκάτα would be conceivable, but is never attested. With the nominative we only have the type δεκάτα τὠπόλλωνος scratched on sherds. So it is preferable, on a support like this one, to restore a formula with verb + accusative, which furthermore provides space for name and father's name at line 1. From it, before the break, there remains only a tiny lower part of a hasta. There are a lot of possibilities for the restoration of the first name with the three possible letters that we have selected amongst more numerous ones which would have given no plausible result.

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