Support: Second out of three white marble panels, broken off at right, whereas the left face is roughly smoothed for joint (w: 0.525 × h: 0.225 × d: 0.085).

Layout: Inscribed on front face in three columns of two lines each, followed by one line on the whole width.

Letters: 0.025; slight serifs, smaller theta and omicrons, non-slanting sigma.

Date: Perhaps first half of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found by G. Oliverio before 1935 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, from the Fountain Terrace.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 445. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[---]ssa fille de [---]n, Thaliarkhos fils d'Hagèsistratos, [Untel, fils d'Untel ont consacré] (scil. ce monument) à Apollon et Artémis.

English translation

[---]ssa daughter of [---]n, Thaliarchos son of Hagesistratos, [So-and-so son of So-and-so dedicated] (scil. this monument) to Apollo and Artemis.

Italian translation

[---]ssa figlia di [---]n, Thaliarchos figlio di Hagesistratos, [il tale figlio del tale hanno dedicato] (scil. questo monumento) ad Apollo e Artemide.

Commentary

Pugliese Carratelli, who was not able to find the stone, published the inscription from a drawing (no given) from Oliverio's archive.

Pugliese Carratelli's idea of finding here the name of the festival Ἀρταμίτια would lead to a long formula including τελεσφορέντες and would not allow for an ending -νι before it. So it seems better to restore a dedication to both Apollo and Artemis, who were frequently worshipped together. A third dedicant is thus necessary to fill the space available at left (ll. 1-2).

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