Name
IGCyr133100
Trismegistos ID: 738878
Source Description
Support
Upper right angle of a local limestone rectangular block, broken at left, below and at back (0.34; 0.22;0.21).
Layout
Inscribed on the face in probably not more than two lines.
Letters
0.025, carefully cut; slanting mu and sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably end of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Copied in 1977 by C. Dobias-Lalou in the Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia pleiades; HGL : placed on a wall of undetermined date near the so-called Palace of the Dux .
Present Location
Never found since.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Not previously published.
Apparatus
French translation
[---] mos fils de [---] ès.
English translation
[---] mos son of [---] es.
Italian translation
[---] mos figlio di [---] es.
Commentary
Although broken off below, the stone seems not to have been inscribed below line 2. A name in -δαμος or -τιμος would be plausible for line 1 whereas line 2 should bear a father's name ending in -ης, perhaps in -κλῆς. No choice is possible amongst a lot of possibilities. As we have only a fragment and as the exact findspot is unknown, it is impossible to decide whether this inscription was funerary or honorific.
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