Description: Three limestone blocks
(a. w:
0.71 x h:
0.405 x d:
0.46;
b. w:
0.795 x h:
0.42 x d:
0.45;
c. w:
0.52 x h:
0.17 x d:
0.425). All damaged in some degree.
Text: Inscribed on one face with letters from a monumental inscription.
Letters: 0.025 - 0.0275; letters with notably broad and flat-based trenches, Roman period.
Date: Perhaps second half of the first century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore:
area F11, 1, 2 (interior, S7 Building).
Original location: Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore.
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations
a: Nu is incomplete and might perhaps be part of mu.
c: The strokes do not quite join at the peak; the letter may have been alpha, delta, lambda, just possibly part of mu.
Commentary
It is tempting to suggest that we have here part of: ἀνέθηκαν, "they dedicated". Note that this is the only building inscription found on the site so far.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 2012, A.29.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. a: Face (Donald White)
Fig. 2. b: Face (Donald White)
Fig. 3. b: Face (Donald White)
Fig. 4. b: Face (Donald White)