Support: Fragment of a white marble circular basin, inner bottom carefully pricked (w: 0.065 × d: 0.105).

Layout: Inscribed on the rim (high 0.035).

Letters: 0.022; no serifs, nu with thinner first hasta.

Date: Perhaps first half of third century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 222. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 and again in 2010 in Shahat, Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone.

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

Those two letters might belong to the word δεκάταν, 'tithe', or to ἀνέθηκε, 'dedicated', but there are a lot of other possibilities.

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