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Low limestone wall with coping head-blocks and, below, on its Northern side, a bench for visitors (width 1.38 to 1.80 for each block).

 One letter inscribed on the Northern side of each head-block; six non inscribed blocks at the right end and probably six also, now missing, at the left end, now hidden under a water channel of Byzantine date. 0.1; slight serifs, mu and sigma with four slantering strokes, open omega, epsilon with shorter middle bar. Findspot. Around the middle of the fourth century B.C.

Cleared in 1930 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene: Sanctuary of Apollo, Fountain Terrace, Bench of Elaiitas.

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 and often again in situ.

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Bibliography

, p. 113, n. 6 , and , pp. 189-190 , whence SEG, 38.1897 . Cf. , p. 94 ; .

Text Ἐλαιίτας ω τῶι Ἀπόλλωνι ἱαριτεύων ἀνέθηκε.
Apparatus

Ἐλαιίτας Θευδώρω

Elaiitas fils de os durant sa prêtrise a consacré à Apollon.

Elaiitas son of os being priest dedicated to Apollo.

Elaiitas figlio di os ha dedicato ad Apollo quando era sacerdote.

Commentary

Stucchi's restoration for the father's name was based on IGCyr096700, which is clearly much later. We follow Laronde's dating and consider the two Elaiitas to be different persons of different times. Hence a date for the wall-bench that should be older that usually proposed.

Laronde mentioned also a possible restoration of the name as Ἐπαρίτας; this was due to a former stage of his work that he did not cancel in his publication, but rejected firmly in further oral discussion and in his unpublished prosopography, inasmuch as IGCyr102000 offers another example of the rare name Ἐλαιίτας.

By the time of the discovery, Oliverio thought this wall to be a dam protecting the sanctuary from rain-water (see for example , p.  133 ). Laronde gave arguments against this idea and , p. 94 (cf. ), following Stucchi, considered it as a bench for visitors.