Support: Fragment of a white marble block, broken at all sides except above (w: 0.10 × h: 0.16 × d: 0.055).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.027 very carefully cut, with serifs; pi with upper bar slightly protruding, non-slanting sigma.

Date: Probably second century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 111. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] du roi Ptolémée [---].

English translation

[---] of king Ptolemy [---].

Italian translation

[---] del re Tolemeo [---].

Commentary

The very careful cutting is a clue for a honorific inscription, either for the king himself or for some member of the royal court. The latter is the more so plausible that the two letters preserved at line 1 do not fit into a royal titulature. It is of course impossible to guess which king Ptolemy is here mentioned.

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