Support: Fragment of a white marble block, broken off at right and back, only chipped off at the left end, this fragmentary block resulting plausibly from a re-use, the upper side being obliquely cut and worked for anathyrosis (preserved dimensions (w: 0.18 × h: 0.085 × d: 0.11).

Layout: Inscribed on the face on one preserved line.

Letters: 0.03 (theta 0.027, with short central horizontal stroke); moderate serifs; epsilon was cut above a former nu.

Date: Perhaps third or second century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Unknown.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 176. Seen in 1979 by Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[Un tel] a consacré.

English translation

[So and so] dedicated.

Italian translation

[Un tale] ha dedicato.

Commentary

This very poor fragment allows only to restore the verb of dedication. The height and type of the letters would suggest to relate this fragment to IGCyr104600². However, the space below the inscribed line prevents to maintain this very faint possibility.

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Fig. 1. View of igcyr137300 Fragmentary dedication

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr137300 Fragmentary dedication

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