Support: Rectangular limestone block broken off obliquely at right in correspondence with a hole for attachment in the upper side; anathyrosis on the left side (w: 0.29 × h: 0.17 × d: 0.08).

Layout: Inscribed on the face in two lines with axial display.

Letters: Very careful letters (0.035) with small serifs; omicron slightly smaller than the average size; only a large serif, belonging to an omega, is preserved at line 1.

Date: Probably third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Plausibly found before World War II at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot not registered.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 83. Seen in 1979 by Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

O[---] (scil. m'a consacré) à Apollon.

English translation

O[---] (scil. dedicated me) to Apollo.

Italian translation

O[---] (scil. mi ha dedicato) ad Apollo.

Commentary

The very small vestige of the first letter at line 1 allows to restore only an omega. The only personal name beginning with that letter attested up to now in Cyrenaica is Ὠρίων, which might be a good guess. The axial display of the inscription lets us suppose that a rather short father's name followed at line 1. A word like δεκάταν and/or the verb ἀνέθηκε should thus have stood at line 2.

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