Support: Small white marble tapering stele with a plain moulding on top, broken off obliquely below (w: 0.305 × h: 0.345 × d: 0.08).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on front face.

Letters: 0.025; wide alpha with rather low bar, slightly smaller omicron, slanting sigma, open omega.

Date: Second half of fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1960 at Cyrene ➚: plausibly from one Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 496. Seen in 1960 by D. Morelli in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Seen in 1977 and again in 2004 by C. Dobias-Lalou at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Aristagoras fils d'Aratos.

English translation

Aristagoras son of Aratos.

Italian translation

Aristagoras figlio di Aratos.

Arabic translation

أريستاغوراس بن أراتوس.

Commentary

The masculine name Aratos is not very frequent at Cyrene, whereas the feminine Arata has been fashionable during the first century AD in the higher society.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr105800 Epitaph

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