Fragment b of gvcyr042 Honours for the city of Cyrene

(1926) Fragment b of gvcyr042 Honours for the city of Cyrene, from SECir, fig. 60. Department of Antiquities, Shahat.

Two punctually adjacent fragments of a white marble stele; fragment a is broken off on all sides but at back (0.22 0.28 0.15); fragment b is a much larger fragment, reconstituted from five adjacent pieces (0.37 0.80 0.15) and bears below IRCyr2020 C.414 in a different hand.

Inscribed on the face (beginning at 0.11 of the surviving top) in at least eight lines covering fragment a and the upper part of fragment b; lines are more or less grouped by pairs with alternate inset for the metrical part and larger though irregular spaces between the pairs.