Name

IGCyr106620

Trismegistos ID: 738591

Source Description

Support

Limestone block (0.61; 0.55;0.41).

Layout

Inscribed or graffito.

Letters

0.115.

Place of Origin

Cyrene .

Date

Admittedly Hellenistic (monument-type)

Findspot

Found before 1960 at Cyrene : on the Acropolis , near the defensive wall (in its original location or in re-use?).

Last recorded Location

Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in situ.

Present Location

Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Morelli in SECir , 294 (no image); Fraser-Matthews, 1987 , p. 294.

Text

Λ̣ῦσις

Apparatus

1 Fraser-Matthews, 1987  Λ̣ῦσις : SECir  Δύσις

French translation

Lysis.

English translation

Lysis.

Italian translation

Lysis.

Commentary

This stone is known only through Morelli's transcription. His reading gives no sense, so that Fraser-Matthews (so also Marengo, 1991 , p. 466) convincingly suspected that a delta had been read for a lambda. We lack any information about the type of execution and the lettering.

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