Support: Small fragment of a white marble block, broken off on all sides (w: 0.20 × h: 0.07 × d: 0.10).

Layout: Inscribed on the face (w: 0.14 × h: 0.05-).

Letters: 0.02 deeply cut, without serifs; beta with two loops not exactly joining on the hasta.

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

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 192. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] B[---] []lôn Battos [---].

English translation

[---] B[---] []lon Battos [---].

Italian translation

[---] B[---] []lon Battos [---].

Commentary

This small fragment allows some guesses, but also leaves many questions open. The main clue is at the end of line 2 the place of the two hastae, which allows only twice tau, whence the personal name Battos. Because of the small vacat before, it is not easy to decide whether Battos is the father's name of the preceding or mentions an unrelated person. With the ending -λων, one might think of the very common Φίλων. However Πόλων is also attested at Cyrene. So we should leave this open.

Personal names probably stood likewise at line 1, where the incomplete characters might belong to the name Βαρκαῖος. But this is a mere possibility.

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