Support: Fragment of a marly limestone cornice, broken off at left and right (w: 0.20 × h: 0.09 × d: 0.06).

Layout: Inscribed on the upper level in one line.

Letters: 0.021 with serifs; very carefully cut; xi with vertical hasta, large omicron, plausibly non-slanting sigma.

Date: Probably second century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 477. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] fils/fille d'Alexis.

English translation

[---] son/daughter of Alexis.

Italian translation

[---] figlio/figlia di Alexis.

Commentary

Only a serif on the line survives of the end of the first name. It might belong either to a nu or rho ending a man's name or to an alpha ending a woman's name (if so, there was a space of one letter between first name and father's name). It would be a tantalizing, but uncautious guess to restore the name of Kritola, a priestess of Artemis at about the same time (see IGCyr020400²). The fact that we know up to now no son of an Alexis whose name ends with nu or rho is no sufficient argument.

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