Support: Small fragment of a white marble block, broken off on all sides (w: 0.10 × h: 0.031 × d: 0.115).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.015 with slight serifs; dissymmetrical nu, rho with a large loop, slanting sigma.

Date: Perhaps fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1976 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 280. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---], [---]fils de Karnèdas, [---] fils de Mnasis, [---].

English translation

[---], [---]son of Karnedas, [---] son of Mnasis, [---].

Italian translation

[---], [---]figlio di Karnedas, [---] figlio di Mnasis, [---].

Commentary

Both personal names are obvious. As the one at line 2 is at the genitive and on behalf of the size of letters, we may suppose that we have a list of names with fathers' names, so we choose to treat also the name at line 1 as a genitive. Possibly the list was displayed in two columns like many other ones: this would fill better the presumable width of the block.

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