Support: Small fragment of a white marble block broken off on all sides but the right one, of which a very small part is preserved higher up than the inscribed face (preserved dimensions w: 0.16 × h: 0.095 × d: 0.09).

Layout: Inscribed on the face (w: 0.10 × h: 0.06).

Letters: Carefully cut letters (0.01), no serifs; slightly slanting mu, slanting sigma, phi with flattened loop.

Date: Probably second half of fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found plausibly after World War II at Cyrene ➚, exact findspot not registered.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 1816. Seen in 1979 by Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] ASY[---], [Untel] fils de [---]litas, M[---], [---]makhos fils de Deinis, [---]ros fils de Phil[---], [---].

English translation

[---]ASY[---], [---] of [---]litas, M[---], [---]machos son of Deinis, [---]ros son of Phil[---], [---].

Italian translation

[---]ASY[---], [---] di [---]litas, M[---], [---]machos figlio di Deinis, [---]ros figlio di Phil[---], [---].

Commentary

This very poor fragment seems to contain only personal names. The lettering is very similar to the bulk of accounts of damiergoi of the second half of the fourth century and the series of names and fathers' names might belong to the header of such a document. There is a triple punct after the first preserved name and none between other groups of names. This might perhaps allow to insert this fragment into the accounts, the first segment belonging to the name of the eponymous priest and the two following pairs of names (not separated by puncts) being name and father's name of damiergoi. However, the vestiges of line 1 are not compatible with the expected mention of the priest (either ἱαρεύς or ἱαριτεύοντος). The idea should not be pushed too far ahead.

For line 2, no name ending with -ίτας is attested up to now at Cyrene. The vestige of the preceding letter may be interpreted diversely: if a lambda, Φιλίτας, known at Cos, and Πολίτας, known at Rhodes, Cos and elsewhere, are good candidates; if a chi, Ἀρχίτας, attested in Dorian regions, would be good; if an alpha, there are several possibilities, which would make the hypothesis too hazardous. For line 3, Deinis, which is already well attested locally, seems a sensible restoration.

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