Support: White marble stele slightly tapering, chipped off above, where a moulding is probably lost and at the left lower angle of front face (w: 0.42 to 0.465 × h: 1.19 × d: 0.275 to 0.36), later reused.

Layout: Inscribed on front face; re-used at back for verse-inscription GVCyr019².

Letters: 0.035 to 0.04; no serifs, slanting sigma, open and somewhat smaller omega.

Date: Fourth century BC

Findspot: Found before World War II at Cyrene ➚: obviously from some area of the Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in Shahat: on the Terrace of the Office of Department of Antiquities.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Aiglanôr fils de Khairesilas.

English translation

Aiglanor son of Chairesilas.

Italian translation

Aiglanor figlio di Chairesilas.

Commentary

This inscription was published by Pugliese Carratelli from a photograph. The stele is fixed on the Terrace of the Department of Antiquities with the side bearing GVCyr019² visible. Only if one walks around it and catches a propitious light it becomes possible to see the present inscription.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr102300 Epitaph

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