Support: Fragmentary white marble circular base, broken off at right, left, back and below; a plain moulding divides the inscribed area and a relief featuring at left a figure carrying a lyre, at right a head with a crested helmet; (w: 0.135 × h: 0.09 × d: unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on top member of the moulding.

Letters: 0.013; deeply but not so carefully cut; no serifs, very small loop of rho, widely open upsilon.

Date: Plausibly second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Bought by the Norton mission from an Arab in 1911 and copied by H.F. De Cou at Cyrene ➚ with no indication of provenance.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 542. Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Seen in 1979 by C. Dobias-Lalou at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transciption from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] de Dèmètrios.

English translation

[---] of Demetrios.

Italian translation

[---] di Demetrios.

Commentary

In the gap, there was possibly the name of Demetrios' son or daughter, although other possibilities are not excluded.

The relief is too lacunar to choose between a votive and a funerary function for the monument.

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