Support: Small fragment of a white marble block, broken off at right and left and below; probably re-cut at back and top so as to form a protruding part on top, separated from face and back through two hollow mouldings (w: 0.105 × h: 0.11 × d: 0.05).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.022 serifs; the oblique strokes of lambda and alpha are very thin, contrasting with the deep cut of the horizontal bars of epsilon; the latter has a longer lower bar.

Date: Probably third or second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Probably found before World War II at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unknown.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 115. 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.

Arabic translation

لا يمكن ترجمته بشكل جيد

Commentary

From those poor rests, we can only guess that line 2 might be part of a personal name such as Ἀρχέλας or Χαιρέλας, but none is hitherto attested in Cyrenaica and it would be hazardous to push this forward.

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