Repository
Cyrene Museum, 497.
Support
Fragmentary grey marble rectangular panel, broken off at left and right (0.115; 0.14;0.045).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on the face.
Letters
0.015-0?02; no serifs; epsilon with three equal bars, dissymmetrical nu, rho with large loop.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably first half of fourth 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.
Intraduisible.
Not usefully translatable.
Intraducibile.
This very small fragment of a carefully cut inscription remains wholly obscure. The only clear point is that the group of letters νκ at line 2 should be divided into two words. We found no parallel to help restoring the word or name beginning with κερ. The sequence of line 1 might belong to a comparative adjective, either at the neutre singular (with α beginning another word) or at the accusative singular of masc.-fem. including the same letter. As the panel seems to have been inscribed only on two lines, the absence of any element belonging to the usual formulae found in short inscriptions is quite puzzling.
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