Support: Rock-cut row of seats (fourteenth from below) of the theatre (height 0.30).

Layout: Scratched on the front face in an ascending line (width 0.65).

Letters: 0.125 (omicron) to 0.14 (alpha), letters scratched and irregular, gamma not clear, epsilon with slightly descending bars.

Date: Probably fifth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found by M. Luni between 2003 and 2005 at Cyrene ➚: Southern Extra-Mural Sacred zone, Theatre 5.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Observed by A. Inglese in 2010 in situ, in the Southern Extra-Mural Sacred zone. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

French translation

Hagètôr (scil. est) beau !

English translation

Hagetor (scil. is) fine!

Italian translation

Hagetor (scil. è) bello!

Arabic translation

أغيتور (يكون) فاضلًا (جيدًا أونبيلًا).

Commentary

This is an acclamation of a type more often preserved on vases than on monuments. However, the lettering leaves no doubt that it is a graffito and no official mention.

The name Ἁγήτωρ is attested for a military officer about 335 BC (IGCyr084000²), who might be a grand-son or another related person.

Rosamilia 2023 was right in suggesting that the date is plausibly more ancient than the 'end of the fifth or very first years of the fourth century BC' proposed by Inglese 2013.

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