Support: Grey marble block, broken off at left upper angle, with right face prepared (anathyrosis) for a block adjacent to the right, which was joined through a dowel hole (above it, a mason's mark Ω) (w: 0.945 × h: 0.355 × d: 0.395).

Layout: Inscribed very low on the face.

Letters: 0.028; very small circular letters, rho with small loop, slightly slanting sigma.

Date: Second half of third century BC (lettering, prosopography).

Findspot: Found before 1935 by Oliverio at Cyrene ➚: in the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 in situ, in the Sanctuary of Apollo. Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

French translation

Theudôros fils d'Aristis [---].

English translation

Theudoros son of Aristis [---].

Italian translation

Theudoros figlio di Aristis [---].

Commentary

This block, belonging to a larger monument and found in the sanctuary of Apollo should not have been moved very far away from its original place.

A space is left before the beginning of the first name, whereas the father's name ends exactly on the right edge of the block, showing that the text went on on the next block. The inscribed line is placed very low on the face. No traces for the attachment of a statue are mentioned. All those facts are clues for a dedication and not for a honorific statue of the mentioned man.

The name and father's name of the dedicant may be found in the reverse order in two inscriptions (IGCyr021000² for an eponymous priest about 250 BC and IGCyr065210² for a contributor about 280 BC). Although both names are frequent at Cyrene, the lettering induces to establish a link between all three mentions: the priest and contributor would be the father of the present dedicant. Discussed again by Rosamilia 2023, p. 105.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr101500 Dedication

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