Support: Fragment of a white marble rectangular block, broken off at right and left and also above (w: 0.19 × h: 0.29 × d: 0.11); the back shows anathyrosis at bottom (on a height of 0.075) and top (on a height of 0.03); on the top of the fragment, almost above the omicron, the bottom of a dowel hole, combined with the measure of the height, shows that only a small part of the block is lost on top.

Layout: Inscribed on the face (w: 0.135 × h: 0.255) in two columns at ll. 1-2 and on the whole width at line 3.

Letters: 0.026 (ll. 1-2) to 0.045 (l. 3), with small serifs; moderately slanting sigma.

Date: Probably end of third of beginning of second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1979 at Cyrene ➚: plausibly from the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 229. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---]makhos fils de [---]ès, [Un tel fils d'Un tel] (scil. ont consacré) à Apollon.

English translation

[---]machos son of [---]es, [So-and-so son of So-and-so] (scil. dedicated) to Apollo.

Italian translation

[---]machos figlio di [---]es, [il tale figlio del tale] (scil. hanno dedicato) ad Apollo.

Commentary

The larger letters at line 3 show that this is a dedication to Apollo. The endings respectively of nominative and genitive preserved at line 1-2 allow to restore the layout with two columns mentioning two donors.

Tοο many names in -μαχος are known in Cyrenaica to allow any restoration.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr127400 Dedication to Apollo

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr127400 Dedication to Apollo

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