Support: Fragment of a white marble block broken off on all sides (preserved dimensions w: 0.115 × h: 0.11 × d: 0.025).

Layout: Inscribed on the face, which is chipped off (preserved height 0.075), in two columns with a graffito added under column a (lines 2-3).

Letters: The main inscription has carefully and deeply cut letters (0.013) with small serifs. The graffito was added with a tool not suited for it, providing irregular letters (average 0.01-0.014); non-slanting sigma.

Date: Perhaps originally third or second century BC, with addition possibly at the beginning of the 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, 419. Seen in 1977 by Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

a) [Un tel fils de ---]odos. Dèmètrios fils de [---]sis.

b) [---]. A[---] fils de Dè[mètrios?].

English translation

a) [So and so son of ---]odos. Demetrios son of [---]sis.

b) [---]. A[---] son of De[metrios?].

Italian translation

a) [Il tale figlio di ---]odos. Demetrios figlio di [---]sis.

b) [---]. A[---] figlio di De[metrios?].

Commentary

For the name at a.1, the very common Greek name Εὔοδος would be a good tentative restoration. However, a compound name with -ροδος, typically Rhodian, would also be possible, as other clues of Rhodian influence are known in the Cyrenaican onomastics.

It is not quite impossible that the graffito at b.3-4 is a copy of a.2-3, appended in the space left under the first shorter column. Alternatively, another man also named Demetrios had his name added to the list later on.

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