Name

IGCyr127200

Trismegistos ID: 738819

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 209.

Support

Small fragment from the lower right angle of a white marble base whith a plain moulding at bottom (0.10; 0.065;0.035).

Layout

Inscribed on the face (0.075; 0.035;0.03), above the moulding.

Letters

0.015, whith slight serifs.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Possibly fourth to second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1979 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

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

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

- - - - - -? [---] Ἀλέ[ξιος]

Apparatus

French translation

 [---?]   [---]  fils d'Alexis.

English translation

 [---?]   [---]  son of Alexis.

Italian translation

 [---?]   [---]  figlio di Alexis.

Commentary

The space available at the end of the line allows only for the short name Ἄλεξις, which is very common in Cyrenaica. Being at the end of the text it is presumably a father's name at the genitive.

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