Support: Small fragment of a white marble block, broken off at right, left, bottom and back (w: 0.05 × h: 0.12 × d: 0.03).

Layout: Inscribed on the face at 0.03 from the upper edge.

Letters: 0.023; carefully cut, with ends just a little thickened; widely open alpha, smaller omicron, horseshoe omega.

Date: Perhaps third century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 205. 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

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

The only clue is here the sequence of three letters at line 1, which leads to the personal name Philokomos, a rather common name in Cyrenaica. We cannot know at which case it was mentioned. Nothing can be guessed about the second line.

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