Support: Upper right angle of a local limestone rectangular block, broken at left, below and at back (w: 0.34 × h: 0.22 × d: 0.21).

Layout: Inscribed on the face in probably not more than two lines.

Letters: 0.025, carefully cut; slanting mu and sigma.

Date: Probably end of fourth or beginning of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Copied in 1977 by C. Dobias-Lalou in the Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia ➚: placed on a wall of undetermined date near the so-called Palace of the Dux.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Never found since.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---]mos fils de [---]ès.

English translation

[---]mos son of [---]es.

Italian translation

[---]mos figlio di [---]es.

Commentary

Although broken off below, the stone seems not to have been inscribed below line 2. A name in -δαμος or -τιμος would be plausible for line 1 whereas line 2 should bear a father's name ending in -ης, perhaps in -κλῆς. No choice is possible amongst a lot of possibilities. As we have only a fragment and as the exact findspot is unknown, it is impossible to decide whether this inscription was funerary or honorific.

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