Repository
Cyrene Museum, 155.
Support
Upper left angle of a white marble panel, broken at right and below, with a dowel hole at the back rim of the upper face (0.255; 0.14;0.06).
Layout
Inscribed on face, beginning at 0.05 from the upper rim.
Letters
0.032, carefully cut with serifs.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably second half of third 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.
Kall [---] Akharn [---] [---] .
Kall [---] Acharn [---] [---] .
Kall [---] Acharn [---] [---] .
We have obviously the first part of two personal names. For the first one there are a lot of possible restorations. The second one is quite isolated in Cyrenaica. The only interpretation that comes to mind is a name hitherto attested only in Attica, where it is related to the name of the deme Acharnae: either Ἄχαρνος or Ἀχαρνίων (see Masson, 1992 Masson, O., 1992, Nouvelles notes d’anthroponymie grecque. I-III, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE)91, 107-120 - see in bibliography , p. 132).
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