Support: On the rock-cut wall of an oikos (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on the West wall, to be read from the inside.

Letters: 0.13, 0.30: widely open horseshoe shaped omega.

Date: Perhaps end of fifth of beginning of fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found between 2008 and 2012 by the Mission of Urbino at Cyrene ➚: Southern Extra-Mural Sacred Zone, North-West of the Extra-Mural Temple of Demeter, in one of a series of oikoi.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: First studied in 2012 by E. Rosamilia in situ in the Southern Extra-Mural Sacred Zone.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد.

Commentary

This isolated letter, carefully and deeply cut, is no accidental graffito. However its meaning remains totally obscure. That it might be an abbreviation for the name of the Hero Opheles is a tentative idea of E. Rosamilia, which he cautiously did not push forward.

The proposed date relies on the very open shape of omega, which is known for the very beginning of the use of the Ionian alphabet at Cyrene.

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