Support: Small fragment of a limestone block, broken off everywhere but on top (w: 0.08 × h: 0.09 × d: 0.085).

Layout: Inscribed on the face, beginning near the upper edge.

Letters: 0.018-0.015 carefully cut, with small serifs; smaller theta, no typical shape.

Date: Probably third century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 560. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Intraduisible (voir le commentaire).

English translation

Not usefully translatable (see commentary).

Italian translation

Intraducibile (vedi commento).

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

This might be a list of personal names, too fragmentary to allow secure restoration. For line 1, there are a lot of compound names in -σθένης and also the shorter Σθένων. However, at line 2, there is a space before the preserved segment. This helps to consider that the break was not far away from the left edge, so we choose the shorter name for line 1.

This space also gives for line 2 a clue to one of the many names derived from Apollo's epithet Karneios, amongst which Κάρνις and Καρνήδας are the most common, excluding names such as Εὔκαρπος. However another possibility for l. 2 would be the name of the festival Karneia, usually associated with a participle of the verb τελεσφορέω in a dedication formula. Line 3 would then have the verb of dedication. This remains hypothetical and has now been omitted in the title, unlike in the first edition of IGCyr.

Another hypothesis would be that further lines with name formed a list of individuals.

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Fig. 1. Squeeze of igcyr130800 List of names

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