Support: Upper left angle of a white marble panel, broken at right and below, with a dowel hole at the back rim of the upper face (w: 0.255 × h: 0.14 × d: 0.06).

Layout: Inscribed on face, beginning at 0.05 from the upper rim.

Letters: 0.032, carefully cut with serifs.

Date: Probably second half of third century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 155. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Kall[---] Akharn[---] [].

English translation

Kall[---] Acharn[---] [].

Italian translation

Kall[---] Acharn[---] [].

Commentary

We have obviously the first part of two personal names. For the first one there are a lot of possible restorations. The second one is quite isolated in Cyrenaica. The only interpretation that comes to mind is a name hitherto attested only in Attica, where it is related to the name of the deme Acharnae: either Ἄχαρνος or Ἀχαρνίων (see Masson 1992, p. 132).

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