Support: Fragment of a white marble circular basin, (wide 0.11; deep 0.055).

Layout: Inscribed on the rim (high 0.03), to be read from outside.

Letters: 0.015 (mu, epsilon) to 0.02 (rho); not very regular cutting, with serifs; lightly curved lines of mu, rho with rather small loop.

Date: Perhaps second century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚, probably from the Hellenistic Gymnasium, later Caesareum.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 108. Seen by C.Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat, Cyrene Museum

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] à Hermès [---].

English translation

[---] for Hermes [---].

Italian translation

[---] per Hermes [---].

Arabic translation

[---] لأجل هيرميس [---]

Commentary

The name of Hermes at the dative case (and in koine form) is a clue for a dedication in the gymnasium, which was still at the time located where the Caesareum later stood. The name of Heracles possibly stood in the lost part, as both deities are usually mentioned together as protectors of the gymnasium.

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