Repository
Cyrene Museum, 111.
Support
Fragment of a white marble block, broken at all sides except above (0.10; 0.16;0.055).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.027 very carefully cut, with serifs; pi with upper bar slightly protruding, non-slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found probably before World War II at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unknown.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Not previously published.
[---] du roi Ptolémée [---] .
[---] of king Ptolemy [---] .
[---] del re Tolemeo [---] .
The very careful cutting is a clue for a honorific inscription, either for the king himself or for some member of the royal court. The latter is the more so plausible that the two letters preserved at line 1 do not fit into a royal titulature. It is of course impossible to guess which king Ptolemy is here mentioned.
Creative Commons Attributions-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
All citation, reuse or distribution of this work must contain a link back to DOI: http://doi.org/10.6092/UNIBO/IGCYRGVCYR and the filename (IGCyr000000 or GVCyr000), as well as the year of consultation.