Support: Fragment of a white marble circular basin, carefully polished with inner side of bottom pricked (w: 0.10 × h: 0.08).

Layout: Inscribed on the inner side of the belly (high 0.03), to be read from outside.

Letters: 0.025; no serifs, rather small omicron, neatly slantering sigma.

Date: Second half of fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1979 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 109. Seen by C.Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat, Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

The vestige of letter before omicron might be the upper part of a iota but also of other letters.

The style of lettering and layout is quite similar with IGCyr012400² and IGCyr012700², hence the proposed date.

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