Names

IGCyr125800

Trismegistos ID: 738807

Source Description

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 : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

Καλλ[---]  Ἀχαρ[ν?---]  - - - - - -

Apparatus

French translation

Kall [---]  Akharn [---]   [---] .

English translation

Kall [---]  Acharn [---]   [---] .

Italian translation

Kall [---]  Acharn [---]   [---] .

Commentary

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 , p. 132).

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