Support: Very small fragment of a white marble block, broken off on all sides, but at left (w: 0.035 × h: 0.085 × d: 0.045).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.007, carefully cut with serifs; phi with rather large oval loop.

Date: Perhaps second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1982 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 2998. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Commentary

This looks like a dossier bearing at least two documents, of which we would have the end of the first and the beginning of the second. The beginning of the second seems to recall past events 'Since the time when…'. Hence the idea of a royal letter. But this should remain highly hypothetical.

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Fig. 1. Squeeze of igcyr131400 Royal letter (?)

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