Support: White marble block, plausibly reused as a cornice, broken off at both sides and on top (w: 0.175 × h: 0.125 × d: 0.01-0.065).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.025; slight serifs, non-slanting sigma, dotted theta.

Date: Probably end of third or beginning of first century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 39. Seen in 1979 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---]rô fille d'Eux[---] et [---]makhos fils de A[---] ont consacré.

English translation

[---]ro daughter of Eux[---] and [---]machos son of A[---] dedicated.

Italian translation

[---]ra figlia di Eux[---] e [---]machos figlio di A[---] hanno dedicato.

Commentary

The larger spacing of line 3 combined with the segments of personal names on line 1 and 2 allows to restore the plural of the verb. We should thus have one person mentioned at line 1 and another one at line 2. So the ending -ρω should belong to a feminine name.

We know of a family where Ζευξίμαχος and Εὔξενος are favorite names at the beginning of the third century BC (see IGCyr065210², lines A.156-159). There is also a Ἁγησίων but the space available at line 2 seems to short to restore it. Anyhow, the span of time is too large to allow a serious hypothesis, so we leave the question open.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr124500 Dedication

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