Support
Fragmentary marble panel, broken on all sides but at bottom (0.09; 0.07;0.015).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.02; poorly cut, slight serifs, non-slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Bought by H.F. De Cou in 1911 from an Arab at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unknown.
Present Location
Seems to be lost.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor.
Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , n. 1 (ph.). Cf. Marengo, 1991 Marengo, S.M., 1991, Lessico delle iscrizioni greche della Cirenaica, Studi pubblicati dall’Istituto italiano per la Storia antica49, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 365, footnote 340.
1 [τὸ]μ βασ[ιλῆ] : Marengo, 1991 Marengo, S.M., 1991, Lessico delle iscrizioni greche della Cirenaica, Studi pubblicati dall’Istituto italiano per la Storia antica49, Roma - see in bibliography [---] μ βασ[---] : Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography Μ(- - -) Βασ[---]
Intraduisible.
Not usefully translatable.
Intraducibile.
غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد
This poor fragment is far from clear. At l. 1, there is no punct which might support Robinson's interpretation of a Latin praenomen Μ(ᾶρκος) preceding a name such as Βάσσος. Marengo's suggestion of the word for 'king' is much more convincing, although the rest is still unclear.
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