Support
Square rock-cut chamber of native limestone, (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Scratched on the Western inner wall, to the left of the entrance door (a) and later more to the left (b).
Letters
a)0.11; b) 0.15; symmetrical nu, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found by S. Ferri in 1922 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Budaraj .
Present Location
Not found by J.M. Reynolds nor by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor (CDL).
Ferri, 1922 Ferri, S., 1922, Il santuario di Budrasc, Notiziario Archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie3, 95-99, fig. 13-20 - see in bibliography , p. 99, n. 5, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.738.
a.1 [Φιλ?]ωνί 'δ' ancient correction from: ι ης : Ferri, 1922 Ferri, S., 1922, Il santuario di Budrasc, Notiziario Archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie3, 95-99, fig. 13-20 - see in bibliography [Λε?]ωνίδης : SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography Λ̣ε̣ωνίδης
[Phil?]onidès (est) beau!
[Phil?]onides (is) fine!
[Phil?]onides (è) bello!
Ferri's drawing and explanation are quite clear: the first letters of the personal name have been later on erased and replaced by three obscure letters (b), which is nonsense, thus not translatable. The restoration now proposed, with three letters erased, fits better the space available.
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