Names
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Perhaps second half of third of first half of first century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...] Κρατέα Κρατέας Διονυσίω

Κρατέα[^a1] Κρατέας Διονυσίω[^a2]

[^a1: Κρατέα | κράτεα]

[^a2: Κρατέας Διονυσίω | Κ[...]υσιο]

Untel fils de Krateas. Krateas fils de Dionysios.

So and so son of Krateas. Krateas son of Dionysios.

Un tale figlio di Krateas. Krateas figlio di Dionysios.

The poor condition of the face allows only hypothetical readings of what is clearly personal names. In the first edition, the restitutions were more cautious. However, a new examination of the squeeze shows a probable rho after kappa at the beginning of line 2, which seems to echo the name preserved at end of line 1. On behalf of the display, the latter is very plausibly the masculine Κρατέας, rather than the end of a feminine compound in -κράτεια, as proposed in [...]. Other short names in -έας do exist in Cyrenaica, such as Μνασέας and Ἀριστέας.

With the ending preserved at line 2, a very plausible restoration is Διονυσίω and the space available at left fits exactly Κρατέας. The two mentioned persons would have been father and son.

Although the space available at line 1 would fit exactly Διονύσιος, we prefer not to push this further, as anyhow we do not know at which case was the first name. The support and careful lettering indeed seem to belong to a monument which might have been made of several similar blocks. The names might be those of persons dedicating the monument, but there is no room on this block for a deitie's name. Alternatively, the names were those of persons honouring either each other (and the first name would be at the accusative) or honouring together another person mentioned in another part of the monument.