Support: Part of a rectangular white marble block, broken off at left and probably cut at right for a re-use related to a shallow basin in the back; there is a dowel hole on the rear edge of the upper side (w: 0.20 × h: 0.165 × d: 0.095).

Layout: Inscribed on the face at 0.11 from the upper edge.

Letters: 0.027, very carefully cut, with serifs; dissymmetrical nu, closed omega.

Date: Perhaps third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1977 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 286. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 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

From other monumental inscriptions, we can only very cautiously suggest either the ending of a personal name in -ων or of a participle with a meaning such as 'being priest' or 'accomplishing the telesphoria', both at the nominative. As for the alpha, there are so many possibilities that they do not deserve to be mentioned.

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