Support: Fragment of a white marble panel, resulting from the re-use of a deeper block, which was re-cut; on the former face, to the right of the present panel, there remain only traces of one letter; only the resulting panel is here taken into account: it is broken off at left, above and below and its surface is not so carefully smoothened as the other side (w: 0.07 × h: 0.10 × d: 0.032).

Layout: Inscribed on the face of the panel; spaces between letters varying at each line.

Letters: 0.012, with large serifs; rho with rather small loop, not-slanting sigma.

Date: Perhaps second half of second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found presumably before World War II at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unknown.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 94. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] fils de [---]n, [---]xénos fils de [---]arkhos, [---]phantos fils de [---]iôn, [---].

English translation

[---] son of [---]n, [---]xenos son of [---]archos, [---]phantos son of [---]ion, [---].

Italian translation

[---] figlio di [---]n, [---]xenos figlio di [---]archos, [---]phantos figlio di [---]ion, [---].

Commentary

The name ending width -ενος at line 2 can only be at the nominative case and is obviously a compound in ξενος, amongst which Φιλόξενος is the most favourite in Cyrenaica. However others are also attested there.

The nominative at line 2, followed by a genitive at line 3 help to determine the layout of the whole: a list of names and father's name alternatively mentioned, one name per line. This layout would fit the narrow side (about 0.14) of a larger stele. The resulting panel may have been re-cut in order to provide some sort of pavement or facing.

Given that line 4 has a nominative, the preserved ending should belong to a compound name with second stem -φαντος, several of which are attested in Cyrenaica, Ξηνόφαντος being the most frequent.

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