Support: Small fragment of a white marble block, broken off on all sides (w: 0.20 × h: 0.08 × d: 0.015).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.02 wit small serifs; smaller circular letters, no typical shape.

Date: Perhaps third or second century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

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

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible (voir commentaire).

English translation

Not usefully translatable (see commentary).

Italian translation

Intraducibile (vedi commento).

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد (انظر التعليق على النقش)

Commentary

Two possible restorations are given in the apparatus for line 2. Depending on the case (nominative or genitive) of that line, the name Diogenes at line 1 would be at the nominative or genitive. In the present condition of the stone, this cannot be decided.

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