Repository
Cyrene Museum, 192.
Support
Small fragment of a white marble block, broken off on all sides (0.20; 0.07;0.10).
Layout
Inscribed on the face (0.14; 0.05-;).
Letters
0.02 deeply cut, without serifs; beta with two loops not exactly joining on the hasta.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps third or second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1979 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.
[---] B [---] [---] lôn Battos [---] .
[---] B [---] [---] lon Battos [---] .
[---] B [---] [---] lon Battos [---] .
This small fragment allows some guesses, but also leaves many questions open. The main clue is at the end of line 2 the place of the two hastae, which allows only twice tau, whence the personal name Battos. Because of the small vacat before, it is not easy to decide whether Battos is the father's name of the preceding or mentions an unrelated person. With the ending -λων, one might think of the very common Φίλων. However Πόλων is also attested at Cyrene. So we should leave this open.
Personal names probably stood likewise at line 1, where the incomplete characters might belong to the name Βαρκαῖος. But this is a mere possibility.
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