Support: Upper fragment of a white marble block, broken off at right, left, back and below (w: 0.155 × h: 0.055 × d: 0.03).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.012 with slight serifs; epsilon with short central bar.

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

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 282. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 and again 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[Un tel] (scil. fils d') Elaiitas [étant prêtre?] a consacré [---].

English translation

[So and so] (scil. son of) Elaiitas [being priest?] dedicated [---].

Italian translation

[Un tale] (scil. figlio de) Elaiitas [---] ha dedicato [---].

Commentary

The fragmentary condition of the stone does not provide a clear view. However is is a plausible guess of Rosamilia's that at line 1 stood the mention of the office of eponymous priest. Elaiitas is the name of two priests of Apollo, one in the second half of the fourth century (IGCyr080500²), the other at the end of the third or the beginning of the second century BC (IGCyr096700², l. 4) and we would have here a member of the same family, for which see a stemma by Rosamilia 2018, p. 280.

About the name Ἐλαιίτας, see Dobias-Lalou 2000, p. 265.

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