Support: Righthand end of a low base of medium-grained white marble, stained brown, with traces of a hook clamp on top; chipped along all edges (w: 0.212 × h: 0.163 × d: 0.051).

Layout: Inscribed on front face.

Letters: 0.016; circular letters smaller.

Date: Perhaps late second or early first century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1974 during the American excavations at Cyrene ➚: Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, area C14.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations, 74-949. Seen by J. Reynolds at Shahat: in the Storeroom of the American excavations. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

French translation

[---p]atros, [---] fils de [i]ppos a consacré [à telle divinité?].

English translation

[---p]atros, [---] son of [i]ppos dedicated [to such and such deity?].

Italian translation

[---p]atros, [---] figlio di [i]ppos ha dedicato [alla tale divinità?].

Commentary

As Reynolds pointed out, the preserved letters at line 1 should not belong to the name of Demeter, because it cannot appear at the genitive case near the verbe 'dedicated'. So a personal name ending with -πατρος at the nominative is the most plausible.

At line 2, -ίππω is surely a father's name. Reynolds suggested that it belonged to the name at line 1. If so, line 3 could have only one name of deity, Demeter or rather the shorter Kore, in the lost part, but surely not both, as Reynolds thought it possible.

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