Repository
Cyrene Museum, 586.
Support
Small fragment of a white marble block, broken on all sides except at left (whole fragment: 0.065; 0.085;0.03).
Layout
Inscribed on the face (0.042; 0.05; -).
Letters
0.012; careful lettering close to the oldest accounts of damiergoi.
Place of Origin
Date
Probably second half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Presumably found at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Dobias-Lalou, 1987 Dobias-Lalou, C., 1987, Noyau grec et éléments indigènes dans le dialecte cyrénéen, in Cirene e i Libyi: Atti del Simposio Internazionale, Roma-Urbino, 13-16 aprile 1981, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)12, 85-91 - see in bibliography , pp. 88-89, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 37.1734; cf. Zimmermann, 1996 Zimmermann, K., 1996, Zum Personennamen Λίβυς/Λίβυσσα, Chiron26, 349-371 - see in bibliography , p. 141, n. 577, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 46.2330.
2 Dobias-Lalou, 1987 Dobias-Lalou, C., 1987, Noyau grec et éléments indigènes dans le dialecte cyrénéen, in Cirene e i Libyi: Atti del Simposio Internazionale, Roma-Urbino, 13-16 aprile 1981, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)12, 85-91 - see in bibliography [Λ]έβυς
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We suspect the first line to contain a personal name. With a tau restituted before the preserved segment, we might have either the end of a name in -τιμος or the beginning of Τιμῶναξ. The piece is too lacunar to allow a choice.
For the name Λεβύστρατος/Λιβύστρατος, see Masson, 1975 Masson, O., 1975, Quelques noms de Cyrénéens dans l'Égypte ptolémaïque, in J. Bingen, G. Cambier, G. Nachtergael, Le monde grec : pensée, littérature, histoire, documents. Hommages à Claire Préaux, Bruxelles, 709-715 - see in bibliography , pp. 712-713.
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