Support: Rectangular limestone block, broken off below and chipped on all edges and especially at right, with the face much damaged by strokes and even circular holes which might appear as circular letters on the images (w: 0.315 × h: 0.13 × d: 0.175).

Layout: Inscribed on the face in lines beginning all at the left edge.

Letters: 0.018; regularly cut without serifs; dotted theta, small omicron, slanting sigma.

Date: Last third of fourth century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 3004. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Prôros fils d'Ar[---], [---] fils de [---]makhos, Amyntas fils de [---], Barthybas fils de Mélani[---], Prolokhos fils d'Iasôn, [---].

English translation

Proros son of Ar[---], [---] son of [---]machos, Amyntas son of [---], Barthybas son of Melani[---], Prolochos son of Iason, [---].

Italian translation

Proros figlio di Ar[---], [---] figlio di [---]machos, Amyntas figlio di [---], Barthybas figlio di Melani[---], Prolochos figlio di Iason, [---].

Commentary

The present condition of the stone makes the reading extremely difficult. The lettering is very similar to that of the lists of military officers IGCyr014800² and IGCyr015100² and of some accounts of the damiergoi, all dated in the second half of the fourth century BC. The name Barthybas, often considered Jewish, is certainly neither Jewish nor Greek, but probably Libyan, as it is known up to now only in Cyrenaican contexts (see Lüderitz – Reynolds 1983, p. 20 commenting on IRCyr2020 C.130).

The personal name Prolochos is new for Cyrenaica, but not unknown in Greece. The father's name at line 4 might be either the common Melanippos or the shorter Melanis, hitherto unattested in the region, but perhaps preferable for reasons of space. In fact, we do not know how much of the right edge is lost.

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