Repository
Cyrene Museum, 477.
Support
Fragment of a marly limestone cornice, broken off at left and right (0.20; 0.09;0.06).
Layout
Inscribed on the upper level in one line.
Letters
0.021 with serifs; very carefully cut; xi with vertical hasta, large omicron, plausibly non-slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably 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.
[---] fils/fille d'Alexis.
[---] son/daughter of Alexis.
[---] figlio/figlia di Alexis.
Only a serif on the line survives of the end of the first name. It might belong either to a nu or rho ending a man's name or to an alpha ending a woman's name (if so, there was a space of one letter between first name and father's name). It would be a tantalizing, but uncautious guess to restore the name of Kritola, a priestess of Artemis at about the same time (see IGCyr020400). The fact that we know up to now no son of an Alexis whose name ends with nu or rho is no sufficient argument.
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