Support: A block of dark grey marble with possibly a moulding at bottom, broken away at left and back (preserved dimensions w: 0.325 × h: 0.21 × d: 0.21).

Layout: Inscribed on the face in two lines, very much chipped off, with guidelines (distant 0.02).

Letters: 0.015; epsilon with horizontal bars, smaller omicron with central dot, slanting sigma.

Date: Probably second half of fifth century (lettering).

Findspot: Found presumably before World War II at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot not registered.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 25. Seen by Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Intraduisibile.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Commentary

Only the final word is identifiable, meaning 'this object'. Therefore this inscription was probably a dedication. The omicron which precedes is necessarily the ending of a genitive, strengthening the impression that the lettering antidates the adoption of the standard alphabet at the end of the fifth century BC.

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