Support: Central part of a white marble rectangular panel, broken off at left and right (w: 0.175 × h: 0.14 × d: 0.06).

Layout: Inscribed on the face in three lines; lines 1-2 plausibly displayed on three columns and line 3 on the whole width.

Letters: 0.020-0.023 with thickening ends; non-slanting sigma, horse-shoe shaped omega with long lower strokes; space between lines slightly larger between ll. 2-3 than between ll. 1-2. .

Date: Perhaps second half of third century (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1977 at Cyrene ➚: plausibly from the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 512. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[Untel fils d'Untel], [---]les son of [---]los, [So-and-so son of So-and-so].

[Untel fils d'Untel] pendant sa prêtrise [a consacré] (scil. ce monument).

English translation

[So-and-so son of So-and-so], [---]lès fils de [---]los, [Untel fils d'Untel].

[So-and-so son of So-and-so] while being priest [dedicated] (scil. this monument).

Italian translation

[Un tale figlio d'Un tale], [---]les figlio di [---]los, [Un tale figlio d'Un tale].

[Un tale figlio d'Un tale] quando era sacerdote [ha dedicato] (scil. questo monumento).

Commentary

The reading of this inscription has been considerably changed for this second edition, following Rosamilia 2023. His observation of a larger space between ll. 2 and 3 prompts to divide the inscription into two parts: three onomastic formulas displayed on three columns of two lines would have been the captions of statues or other images standing above, only part of the central one being preserved. Line 3 would have extended on the whole width of the monument and provided the usual formula of dedication with the name and father's name of the priest lost at left and the verb of dedication lost at right.

Personal names ending with -λης might be compounds in -κλῆς, -θάλης or -τέλης. A father's name ending with -λος was plausibly a compound name in -βωλος.

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Fig. 1. Squeeze of igcyr130300 Dedication to Apollo

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