Private honours
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Probably first half of second century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Not published before [...] 131100.

Δαμάτριον Κ[...][...]ος Δα[...] [...]λάνορος τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἀνέθηκε

La statue de Damatrios fils de K[...], son frère, a été consacrée par Da[...] fils de [...]lanôr.

The statue of Damatrios son of K[...], his brother, was dedicated by Da[...] son of [...]lanor.

La statua di Damatrios figlio di K[...], suo fratello, fu dedicata da Da[...] figlio di [...]lanor.

A sort of pi between lines 1 and 2 and a long vertical line cut on the right are visible on the photograph and squeeze. They are probably related to the re-use of the stone. A caption written with a pen reads 'CAR.ST.BYZ.FORT 1972'. Knowing of no Byzantine fort at Cyrene, we interpret it as the Byzantine tower that stood across Battos Street. However this was dismantled already in 1963 under supervision of Goodchild (see [...], p. 124). We suppose that the date corresponds to the time when the inscription was discovered when building material was moved from that area as the Italian mission of Stucchi worked on the so-called Stoa of Hermes and Heracles.

For the first name at line 1, we restore the only name ending in -ριος attested in Hellenistic Cyrenaica and fitting the gap. If ἀδελφός has it most common meaning, the dedicant and the honoured man should share the same father's name, that is a name beginning with kappa (l. 1) and ending with λάνωρ (l. 3). None is known up to now, although *Καλάνωρ seems theoretically possible. On the other hand, two names are common at Cyrene, Φιλάνωρ and mostly Αίγλάνωρ, the latter being typically Cyrenaican. We should thus not exclude that both were half-brothers through a common mother, which is the etymological meaning of ἀδελφός. If so, there would be no problem with two different fathers' names.