Support: Lower left angle of a white marble panel, broken off at right and above (w: 0.10 × h: 0.065 × d: 0.048).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.017 without serifs; non-slanting sigma, widely open upsilon.

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

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 208. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] Alkibios [---] Boulias [---].

English translation

[---] Alkibios [---] Boulias [---].

Italian translation

[---] Alkibios [---] Boulias [---].

Commentary

This fragment is probably the end of a list of names, which were plausibly followed by the fathers' names.

A very faint angular trace at the end of line 2 shows that the last letter was a sigma, leading to read a nominative and helping to date the lettering.

Whereas Alkibios was already attested once at Cyrene, the name Boulias is new in the region and the vocalism ου in the first syllable shows a foreign influence, as opposed to dialectal ω.

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