Support: Fragmentary marble panel, broken on all sides but at bottom (w: 0.09 × h: 0.07 × d: 0.015).

Layout: Inscribed on front face.

Letters: 0.02; poorly cut, slight serifs, non-slanting sigma.

Date: Second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Bought by H.F. De Cou in 1911 from an Arab at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unknown.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seems to be lost.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

English translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

This poor fragment is far from clear. At l. 1, there is no punct which might support Robinson's interpretation of a Latin praenomen Μ(ᾶρκος) preceding a name such as Βάσσος. Marengo's suggestion of the word for 'king' is much more convincing, although the rest is still unclear.

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