Support: Fragment of an oblong white marble block broken off at right and left (w: 0.19 × h: 0.115 × d: 0.11); the upper and lower sides are perpendicular to the face on a depth of 0.07 only, then cut obliquely, leaving a height of only 0.055 for the vertical side; on the upper face, a dowel hole still full of metal.

Layout: Inscribed on the front face, which is severely broken off, in two lines.

Letters: Carefully cut letters (0.028) with well marked serifs; non slanting sigma, widely open upsilon.

Date: Probably second half 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, 413. Seen in 1977 by Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Asty[---] (scil. fils de) [---].

English translation

Asty[---] (scil. son of) [---].

Italian translation

Asty[---] (scil. figlio di) [---].

Commentary

Several personal names with first stem Ἀστυ- being known in Cyrenaica, no further restoration is possible here. As there was space only for two lines on the stone, the tiny vestiges of two letters at line 2 should belong to the father's name. The block was cut for being inserted into a monument, probably honorific, of which it would have been a sort of lintel.

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