Support: White marble base with plain mouldings on top and below, later reused upside down, whence a circular hole in the former under side; chipped off at angles (dimensions not registered).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on the whole width of the face, between the mouldings.

Letters: Dimensions unknown; no serifs, smaller theta, slanting sigma, calice-shaped upsilon.

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

Findspot: Found before 2004 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded and anyway related to the re-use.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚: plausibly from one undetermined Necropolis.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2004 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Euklès fils de Kartisthénès.

English translation

Eukles son of Kartisthenes.

Italian translation

Eukles figlio di Kartisthenes.

Commentary

The name Kartisthenes is of common use in the Hellenistic and also Roman period at Cyrene. Eukles is a compound formed with the common second member -kles; however it is rather rare in Cyrenaica. No prosopographical relation can be proposed for that man.

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