Support: Limestone block, broken at right and back (w: 0.43 × h: 0.63 × d: 0.48).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on front face, apparently without any loss of text in the broken part.

Letters: 0.045 (xi) to 0.07 (rho); deeply cut without serifs; alpha with low bar, slanting mu, tall rho with large loop, slanting sigma.

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

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Timarkhos.

English translation

Timarchos.

Italian translation

Timarchos.

Commentary

This man's name without father's name on a rough stone is more plausibly an epitaph than a honorific mention.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr106610 Epitaph

Fig. 2. Squeeze of l. 1 of igcyr106610 Epitaph

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