Support: Small white marble slightly tapering stele with plain moulding on top on three sides and a rounded bottom similar to a console (traces of tenons): dimensions of the whole w: 0.30-0.34 × h: 0.87 × d: 0.19.

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on the much encrusted face below the moulding (w: 0.285-0.31 × h: 0.81 × d: 0.17-0.19).

Letters: 0.02-0.022, no serifs; alpha with low bar, slantering mu and sigma, widely open upsilon.

Date: Perhaps last quarter of fourth or first quarter of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found probably before World War II at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 244. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 and again in 1997 and 2004 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum; in 1997 the stele was broken into two adjacent fragments, in 2004 the bottom could not be found.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Lykommas fils d'Astykratès.

English translation

Lykommas son of Astykrates.

Italian translation

Lykommas figlio di Astykrates.

Commentary

The name Λυκόμμας is new. It should be a short form of Λυκομήδης, which is also unattested at Cyrene, but rather common in different regions, including all Aegean islands and Attica. For the father's name, we have a small series of occurrences from Hellenistic Cyrene.

Most stelae bearing a name and father's name are of known funerary origin. However this one is smaller than the average and its shape and tenons show that it was fixed on a wall. Therefore, it has more probably a honorific purpose than a funerary one.

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