Support: Two adjacent fragments of a white marble panel broken off at left, right and below (w: 0.18 × h: 0.12 × d: 0.027).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.032 - 0.037, deeply cut; slanting mu, dissymmetrical nu, tall rho, widely open horseshoe-shaped omega.

Date: Plausibly 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, 40 and 123. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---]imakh[os --- fils de---]andros [---].

English translation

[---]imach[os --- son of---]andros [---].

Italian translation

[---]imach[os --- figlio di---]andros [---].

Commentary

Although registered with different numbers after World War II, both fragments belong clearly to one and the same panel. The circumstances of the find are wholly unknown.

The name at line 1 is a compound of -μαχος with a first element ending with ι, for which there are different possibilities; moreover it is impossible to know at which case this name was used here.

At line 3 the two preserved letters might belong to another personal name or might also be part of the word for the ceremony called telesphoria. But the possibility is much too weak to allow any conclusion.

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