Support: Small limestone tapering stele with a plain moulding on top (w: 0.2 × h: 0.45 × d: 0.11).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines under the moulding on the face (w: 0.175 to 0.185 × h: 0.385 × d: 0.095).

Letters: 0.009 (omicron) to 0.015 (rho); no serifs; slanting sigma, circular letters slighlty smaller, xi with central vertical stroke, tall rho with rather small loop.

Date: Plausibly fourth century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 21. Seen in 1960 by D. Morelli in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Sôstratos fils d'Alexis.

English translation

Sostratos son of Alexis.

Italian translation

Sostratos figlio di Alexis.

Commentary

Although of the same shape as IGCyr106400², this stele is much smaller. As a tomb-marker, it should have stood on a sarcophagus of small scale. Inside a tomb-chamber, its placement is not obvious.

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