Support: A block of local limestone, broken off on all sides except on top (w: 0.20 × h: 0.49 × d: 0.20).

Layout: Inscribed on at least one line under the upper edge.

Letters: 0.115 deeply and carefully cut narrow letters with rather small serifs; alpha with broken bar, omicron perfectly oval.

Date: Perhaps first or second century AD (lettering).

Findspot: Found at an unknown date, presumably at Cyrene ➚.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 377. Seen by Dobias-Lalou in 1979 at at Shahat: in the Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from the stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] fameux [---].

English translation

[---] famous [---].

Italian translation

[---] famoso [---].

Commentary

The poetical tone of the adjective ἀοίδιμος and its dactylic rythm are the only clues for considering this fragment as belonging to a verse-inscription. The large dimensions of the characters allow to imagine its belonging to a monument built with the local limestone. No good parallel comes to mind.

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Fig. 1. Squeeze of gcyr061 Unclear poetic fragment

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