Support
Two massive limestone ashlars and one fragmentary block, each of which bore the same inscription (1.9; 0.375; -, height estimated from scale of photograph of one block).
Layout
Inscribed on one side.
Letters
0.175 (estimated from scale of photograph of one block); lambda slightly shorter at right.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of fifth or fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1995 or 1996 at Euesperides pleiades; HGL : to the North of the city wall in the ditch crossing areas H-N of the excavations, opposite the tombs bearing IGCyr084100 .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Buzaian-Lloyd, 1996 Buzaian, A.M., Lloyd, J.A., 1996, Early Urbanism in Cyrenaica: New Evidence from Euesperides (Benghazi), Libyan Studies (LibStud)27, 129-152 - see in bibliography , p. 138 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 46.2190.
Parpaing.
Squared block.
Plinto.
Buzaian and Lloyd wrote that there were three such blocks bearing the same inscription and give the length of only one with one photograph.
They 'provisionally' but convincingly interpret them as blocks fallen from a wall serving for the fortification of the city of Euesperides on its North-West side.
As no personal name beginning with Πλι- is attested, the editors' idea of a mason's mark seems very convincing.
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