Support: Upper left angle of a white marble stele with cymatium.

Layout: Inscribed under cymatium (w: 0.135 × h: 0.1 × d: 0.035 dimensions of the inscribed panel).

Letters: 0.01; nu, mu and omega rather ancient in shape.

Date: Between ca. 365 and ca. 350 BC (Rosamilia) (lettering, textual context).

Findspot: Found before 1933 at Cyrene ➚: agora.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 87. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou on May 5th, 1976 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum; a small fragment now lost at bottom.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Dieux. Damis [fils d'un tel], Theukhrestos [fils d'un tel?, un tel] fils de Melanippos, [ démiurges; prêtre] d'Apollon [un tel fils d'un tel]. La récolte [a été estimée: orge, tant; froment, tant; légumineuses, tant]; raisin sec, [tant; figues, tant]; [olives, tant; huile, tant?]; [raisin]: hâtif [sous garantie, tant]; [---].

English translation

Gods. Damis [son of So-and-so], Theuchrestos [son of So-and-so?, So-and-so] ` `son of Melanippos, [ damiergoi; priest] of Apollo [So-and-so son of So-and-so]. The crops [were estimated: barley, so much; wheat, so much; pulse, so much;]; raisins, [so much; figs, so much]; [olives, so much; oil, so much?]; [grapes]: early [under guarantee, so much]; [---].

Italian translation

Dèi. Damis [figlio del tale], Theuchrestos [figlio del tale?, il tale] son of Melanippos, [ damiurghi; sacerdote] di Apollo [il tale figlio del tale]. Il raccolto [è stato valutato: orzo, a tanto; frumento, a tanto; legumi, a tanto]; uva passa, [a tanto; fichi, a tanto]; [olive, a tanto; olio, a tanto?]; [uva]: primateccia [scelta, a tanto]; [---].

Arabic translation

الآلهة. داميس [بن فلان]، ثيوخريستوس [بن فلان؟، فلان بن ميلانيبوس، [الداميرجوي. كاهن] أبولو [فلان بن فلان]. المحاصيل [قُدرت كالتالي]: الشعير، قيمة ما؛ القمح، قيمة ما؛ البقوليات، قيمة ما؛] الزبيب، [قيمة ما؛ التين، قيمة ما] ؛ [الزيتون، قيمة ما؛ الزيت، قيمة ما؟]؛ [العنب: [المبكر(مباع بعقد مسبق)، قيمة ما] ؛ [---].

Commentary

The length of the lines may be inferred from the restorated formula at line 6, on the basis of the repetitive lists of products. This results in an inscribed area much broader than most others, but this seems inescapable. In this regard, Rosamilia 2023 noticed that other accounts with the same earlier lettering show a special ordering of the products, namely IGCyr012500², IGCyr013100², IGCyr088100². This induces him to cancel Oliverio's restoration of grapes at line 6 and read raisin instead, with a renewed list, largely restored, which we now endorse.

At line 1 there is no reason to admit with Oliverio a form δαμιοργοί which would not fit the dialect. We should rather have the name of the first damiergos at the genitive case of Damis. Another Damis is mentioned as the first damiergos in IGCyr013000², but both lack their father's names, which were probably different, as we don't know examples of one and the same damiergos in charge in two different years.

At lines 1-3, the list of three damiergoi begins with Damis; we cannot be sure of the exact distribution of the two other preserved names, who may be themselves damiergoi or fathers of damiergoi (our translations are exempli gratia). On behalf of the special width of the stone, Rosamilia 2023 suggests that perhaps there were more than three damiergoi acting for this account. Such an anomaly seems surprising. One damiergos was perhaps mentioned at each line with a space left at right.

The damiergoi are undoubtedly mentioned here at the genitive. It is not clear whether the priest was also mentioned at the gentivie or at the nominative. Such a mixed syntax happens for instance at IGCyr011800², IGCyr012700², IGCyr013400².

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr012900 Account of the damiergoi

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr012900 Account of the damiergoi

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