Support: Fragment of a white marbleblock, broken off at left and right and below (w: 0.13 × h: 0.098 × d: 0.075).

Layout: Inscribed on the face, beginning at 0.014 from the upper rim.

Letters: 0.021 with serifs; pi with protruding upper bar, non-slanting sigma.

Date: Perhaps second century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 172. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---]n fils de Ka[---], [---]s fils de Po[---], [---].

English translation

[---]n son of Ka[---], [---]s son of Po[---], [---].

Italian translation

[---]n figlio di Ka[---], [---]s figlio di Po[---], [---].

Commentary

At line 1 a word limit is unescapable between nu and kappa. It is thus mostly probable that we have the end of a personal name and the beginning of another one, which might be the related father's name. The same is also very plausible at line 2, because words containing the sequence σπο do not usually occur in monumental inscriptions. There are faint traces of two letters at line 3, the first might be the left upper end of a gamma, pi, sigma or tau, the second the upper hasta belonging to eta, iota or kappa.

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