Support: White marble tapering stele with plain moulding on top on three sides, chipped of at the upper left angle (w: 0.375 × h: 1.19 × d: 0.28).

Layout: Inscribed on the face (w: 0.345 to 0.37 × h: 1.125 × d: 0.24 to 0.28) in two lines.

Letters: 0.04; symmetrical nu, slanting sigma, widely open upsilon.

Date: Third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1960 at Cyrene ➚, presumably from an undetermined Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in Shahat: outside the Casa Parisi, which is part of the Cyrene Museum. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Androklès fils de Neussos.

English translation

Androkles son of Neussos.

Italian translation

Androkles figlio di Neussos.

Arabic translation

أندروكليس بن نيوسوس

Commentary

The position of the stele, partly hidden by other stones, forbade to make a photograph.

The name Νεῦσσος, from the dialectal form of the word 'nestling', is not quite uncommon at Cyrene.

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