Support: Small fragment of a white marble block, broken off on all sides (w: 0.18 × h: 0.115 × d: 0.15).

Layout: Inscribed on the face (w: 0.135), beginning at 0.06 from the top, which probably means that we still have the original first line.

Letters: l. 1 0.035, l. 2 0.025, carefully cut with nice serifs.

Date: Perhaps third or second century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 325. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Intraduisible (voir commentaire).

English translation

Not usefully translatable (see commentary).

Italian translation

Intraducibile (vedi commento).

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد (راجع التعليق على النقش).

Commentary

The third letter preserved at line 1 does not seem to be an iota. So the dative of the Apollo's name should be excluded. This first line in larger characters might have the dedicant's name, maybe a name ending with -ων and the first letter of his father's name.

Although very fragmentary, the second line might have the usual formula of dedication of the tithe. The whole is very hypothetical.

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Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr128600 Tithe (?)

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr128600 Tithe (?)

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