Support: White marble base, reddish from earth, with plain mouldings on top and below on three sides; broken off at right lower angle and scratched on the face by the mechanical engine that unearthed it (w: 0.71 × h: 0.21 × d: 0.475).

Layout: Inscribed in one line on the face (w: 0.665 × h: 0.0.12 × d: 0.455).

Letters: 0.025 to 0.03; no serifs, slanting mu and sigma, slightly smaller circular letters.

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

Findspot: Found before 1997 at Cyrene ➚: plausibly from one undetermined Necropolis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen in 1997 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Kléô fille de Damasanôr.

English translation

Kleo daughter of Damasanor.

Italian translation

Kleò figlia di Damasanor.

Commentary

Damasanor is a well consituted Greek name. Yet it is rare and attested only three times at Cyrene. The two other occurrences belong to lists of military officers of the fourth century (IGCyr094400²) and earlier (IGCyr014700²). So a family link is probable but cannot be more precisely defined because of the gap in time. For Kleo, a classical woman's name, this is the only occurrence in Cyrenaica proper, yet two Cyrenaican women of that name are known at Alexandria in the Hellenistic period.

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