Repository
Cyrene Museum, 40 and 123.
Support
Two adjacent fragments of a white marble panel broken off at left, right and below (0.18; 0.12;0.027).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.032 - 0.037, deeply cut; slanting mu, dissymmetrical nu, tall rho, widely open horseshoe-shaped omega.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Plausibly first half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Presumably found before World War II at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Not previously published.
[---] imakh[os] [---] [fils de] [---] andros [---] .
[---] imach[os] [---] [son of] [---] andros [---] .
[---] imach[os] [---] [figlio di] [---] andros [---] .
Although registered with different numbers after World War II, both fragments belong clearly to one and the same panel. The circumstances of the find are wholly unknown.
The name at line 1 is a compound of -μαχος with a first element ending with ι, for which there are different possibilities; moreover it is impossible to know at which case this name was used here.
At line 3 the two preserved letters might belong to another personal name or might also be part of the word for the ceremony called telesphoria . But the possibility is much too weak to allow any conclusion.
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