Support: Fragmentary grey marble rectangular panel, broken off at left and right (w: 0.115 × h: 0.14 × d: 0.045).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on the face.

Letters: 0.015-0.02; no serifs; epsilon with three equal bars, dissymmetrical nu, rho with large loop.

Date: Probably first half of fourth century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 497. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Commentary

This very small fragment of a carefully cut inscription remains wholly obscure. The only clear point is that the group of letters νκ at line 2 should be divided into two words. We found no parallel to help restoring the word or name beginning with κερ. The sequence of line 1 might belong to a comparative adjective, either at the neutre singular (with α beginning another word) or at the accusative singular of masc.-fem. including the same letter. As the panel seems to have been inscribed only on two lines, the absence of any element belonging to the usual formulae found in short inscriptions is quite puzzling.

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