Support: Part of a local limestone block, re-cut at left, above and below for re-use in a Roman wall (dimensions not measured).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.01-0.03, perhaps by different hands; slanting sigma.

Date: Perhaps third or second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 2010 by the French Mission in the Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia ➚: during the excavations of the area of Kallikrateia Rock, re-used in the Northern wall of the Roman portico in front of a cave, below the rock north-westward.

Place of origin: Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia ➚.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 in situ at Sūsah, in the area of Kallikrateia Rock.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---]s fils de [---]ippos, [---]is [---].

English translation

[---]s son of [---]ippos, [---]is [---].

Italian translation

[---]s figlio di [---]ippos, [---]is [---].

Commentary

This very fragmentary block is not very rewarding. The very tender local limestone, exposed to the action of wind and salt, is a very bad support for inscriptions. The fist letter at line 1 was perhaps a much eroded eta. The third line may have been added later on, as its sigma differs notably from that at line 1.

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