Support: Fragmentary white marble block with projecting moulding on top, broken off at left, right and below (w: 0.31 × h: 0.145 × d: 0.11).

Layout: Inscribed on front face under the moulding (w: 0.30 × h: 0.095 × d: 0.095) in 6 columns of two lines each, followed by one or more lines on the whole width.

Letters: 0.018 at lines 1 to 12, 0.022 at line 13; tall beta with rather large loops, small theta and omicron, slanting sigma, upsilon with tall vertical stroke and largely open bars.

Date: End of fourth or beginning of third century BC

Findspot: Found before 1960 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 502. Seen in 1960 by Pugliese Carratelli in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

(scil. Untel fils d'Untel), (scil. Untel fils d'Untel), (scil. Untel fils d'Untel), [---]ros fils de [---]kratès, Baios fils de Lysanias, (scil. Untel) fils de Th[---], à l'occasion de la telesphoria [---].

English translation

(scil. So-and-so son of So-and-so), (scil. So-and-so son of So-and-so), (scil. So-and-so son of So-and-so), [---]ros son of [---]krates, Baios son of Lysanias, (scil. So-and-so) son of Th[---], while celebrating the telesphoria [---].

Italian translation

(scil. Il tale figlio del tale), (scil. il tale figlio del tale), (scil. il tale figlio del tale), [---]ros figlio di [---]krates, Baios figlio di Lysanias, (scil. il tale) figlio di Th[---], in occasione della telesphoria [---].

Commentary

From the layout of letters at line 3, we are able to deduce the dimensions of the missing parts; hence three columns mentioning three other men are lost at left; as for the following line, the formula might be more or less complete. Pugliese Carratelli thought that the stone was complete below and mentioned it as a base. C. Dobias-Lalou for IGCyr was not convinced, because the proeminent moulding and also because a base would also have a moulding below. Rosamilia 2023 suggests that it might be the lintel of a naiskos, which seems a good idea.

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Fig. 1. Squeeze of igcyr099200 Dedication with telesphoria

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