Support: White marble base, with egg and dart mouldings on top and below on three sides, broken off at left; the mouldings seem to have been deliberately chipped off and the back has been recut so as to form a projecting belt (w: 0.685 × h: 0.22 × d: 0.47).

Layout: Inscribed in one line on the face between the mouldings (w: 0.67 × h: 0.16). .

Letters: 0.035; no serifs, lightly and carefully cut, epsilon with shorter middle bar, slanting mu.

Date: Fourth century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚: probably from an unidentified Necropolis.

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

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[Stra?]tô fille d'Eupolémos.

English translation

[Stra?]to daughter of Eupolemos.

Italian translation

[Stra?]tò figlia di Eupolemos.

Commentary

A man named Eupolemos was the father of two soldiers mentionned in IGCyr015100² (l.10 and l.11). This woman might be his daughter. Her name cannot be restored with full confidence: we prefer Στρατώι, which is the only one matching the gap which is attested up to now in Cyrenaica for the Hellenistic period (see IGCyr105600²). However, Μυρτώι, known in the first century AD would also fit the presumable gap, as well as Κρατώι, attested at Cos in the first century BC.

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