Support: Upper right angle of a white marble block, broken off at left, back and below, with traces of attachment of an object at the fore right angle of the upper face (w: 0.125 × h: 0.045 × d: 0.125).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.02 (estimated for nu), no serifs; broad nu, rather large round letter(s).

Date: Perhaps third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1979 presumably at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 171. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] de [---]gnôtos [---].

English translation

[---] of [---]gnotos [---].

Italian translation

[---] di [---]gnotos [---].

Commentary

Although both circular letters are uncomplete, the phonetic context helps to interpret the first one as an omega and the second one, at the end of the line should also be an omega for a genitive ending. We get thus a personal name in -γνωτος. Two such compounds are known at Cyrene: Καλλίγνωτος and Πολύγνωτος, the latter, being the father's name of a probable priest of Ammon in the third century BC (IGCyr109300², I.31). But it would be hazardous to suggest a link with one of them.

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