Repository
Cyrene Museum, 381.
Support
White marble block, cut in the shape of a tau, probably on occasion of a re-use, broken off at right and chipped off at the left end of the face (0.50; 0.085;0.295).
Layout
Inscribed on the broad part of the face.
Letters
0.025 with serifs; pi with shorter right bar, non slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1977 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Not previously published.
Ptolémaios fils de P [---] .
Ptolemaios son of P [---] .
Ptolemaios figlio di P [---] .
Too many names might be restored as the father's name. The name of the kings of Egypt (including for some periods Cyrenaica) was very popular in Hellenistic times for people of all social levels. However, in the lower layers, it was progressively changed into Πτυλ(ε)μαῖος. The use of the traditional form shows that its bearer was sticking at some degree to traditions.
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