Support: Fragmentary white marble base, broken on all sides but at left, dowel holes on the left upper edge (w: 0.25 × h: 0.10 × d: 0.12).

Layout: Inscribed on two lines on the face, which is badly scratched.

Letters: 0.025; serifs; non-slanting sigma.

Date: Probably end of second or beginning of first centuries BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 260. Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Kalliklès fils de Naristos.

English translation

Kallikles son of Naristos.

Italian translation

Kallikles figlio di Naristos.

Arabic translation

كاليكليس بن ناريستوس

Commentary

The very fragmentary condition of the stone makes it difficult to trace its function. However the dowel hole in the upper left edge suggests that it is no funerary base, but should belong to a honorary monument.

The vestiges of line 2 consist in the upper half of five letters. The first one is a nu and is also the first letter of the line. The second letter might be an alpha, a delta or a lambda. Rho, iota and sigma are certain. After it, a small part of a horizontal bar can only belong to a tau. Hence the proposed reading. The new name Νάριστος is the dialectal form resulting from Ναϝ-αριστος, as proposed by Dobias-Lalou 2000.

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