Support: Left part of a white marble rectangular panel, broken off at right and also at the upper left angle (w: 0.12 × h: 0.11 × d: 0.032); at back the bottom is bevelled, perhaps recut for a re-use; anathyrosis on the upper face.

Layout: Inscribed on the face in two lines.

Letters: Carefully cut letters (0.032 at line 1; 0.029 at line 2); small serifs, rho with rather small loop, phi with small flattened loop.

Date: Probably end of second or beginning of first 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, 169. Seen in 1979 by Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Philytas [---] Euphris [---].

English translation

Philytas [---] Euphris [---].

Italian translation

Philytas [---] Euphris [---].

Commentary

The shape of the stone, an oblong panel, lets us suppose that each line contained more than one name. Furthermore, line 2 has letters not really different in style, but a bit smaller than at line 1. Each line thus contained probably a name followed by the related father's name. Anyhow, both lines were probably cut by the same hand, exluding the hypothesis of a list of priests, an idea which would also be discarded by the type of support.

Generally speaking, the name Φιλύτας is rather rare, but it is more frequent at Cyrene, one occurrence near in date being in IGCyr104000². A very small vestige of hasta above the break at line 2 allows to exclude an alpha and to read an iota, whence the name Εὖφρις rather than Εὐφράνωρ, both the compound form and the shorter one being typical in Cyrenaica.

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