Support: Fragment of a white marble block, broken off everywhere but at right (w: 0.125 × h: 0.21 × d: 0.085).

Layout: Inscribed on the face, apparently in only one line.

Letters: 0.014, comfortably spaced, without serifs; alpha with rather low bar.

Date: Probably second half of fourth century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 421. 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

This puzzling fragment does not allow any serious restoration. The ending might grammatically belong either to the singular dative or to the plural nominative of the first nominal inflexion. In the first case, a man's or woman's name, respectively in -κρίτας or -κρίτα, would be very strange in a monumental inscription. For the second case, we may imagine an office-name mentioned as a title, but no such name is attested hitherto in Cyrenaica with that ending. Non liquet.

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