Support: White marble base with plain mouldings (w: 0.53 × h: 0.21 × d: 0.355).

Layout: Inscribed on the face (w: 0.495 × h: 0.09 × d: 0.34), the beginning of the lines aligned along the left margin.

Letters: 0.02; without serifs, slanting sigma.

Date: Second half of fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1935 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene ➚: North Necropolis, unidentified tomb.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 near entrance to Apollo's sanctuary. Seen again by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1997 inShahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Damokrates fils d'Hellooikos.

English translation

Damokrates son of Hellooikos.

Italian translation

Damokrates figlio di Hellooikos.

Commentary

The personal name Ἑλλόοικος is very rare. The only other known instance occurs at Kourion on Cyprus, where we have both this form in koine (in alphabetic script) and the dialectal form (in syllabic writing) e-lo-wo-i-ko-se. In both places the original initial aspiration is no longer preserved, so that there is no reason to split both instances into two entries (contra Fraser – Matthews 1987, p. 150).

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