Names

IGCyr129900

Trismegistos ID: 738846

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 484.

Support

Small fragment of a white marble block, broken off everywhere (0.135; 0.11;0.115).

Layout

Inscribed on the face (0.06; 0.07;).

Letters

0.015-0.02, with serifs; no typical shape.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Third or second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1977 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

- - - - - - [---] ΑΧ̣[---]  [---]  [---] εκλῆ[ς---]  - - - - - -

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

The only clear thing here is that line 2 has a personal name such as Μενεκλῆς or Φερεκλῆς, both attested in Cyrenaica, either at the nominative or perhaps at the accusative case. The letters at line 1 might also belong to a personal name.

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