Support: Upper right angle of a dark grey block, broken off at left and back; the inferior face is roughly smoothened and perhaps not original; all other faces were carefully smoothened (w: 0.325 × h: 0.21 × d: 0.21).

Layout: Inscribed between guidelines in two lines, which are very difficult to read because all faces were scratched.

Letters: l. 1 0.01, lightly and carefully cut, dotted omicron, slanting sigma; l. 2 0.013, somewhat deeper, epsilon with three equal bars, dotted omicron.

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

Findspot: Presumably found before World War II at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 25. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Commentary

Apart from τόδε ('this') at line 2, the text is quite unclear. The imperative ἴσθι is only a mere possibility and does not help to determine a precise text-type. Anyway, a reading with a name in σθένης does not seem possible, because the last readable letter is no epsilon.

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