Support: Fragment of white marble block, broken on all sides and recut on opposite side for the shoulder of a draped sculpture; two holes for attachment to the statue were cut into the inscribed face (w: 0.23- × h: 0.12- × d: 0.05).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: Line 1 0.01; elsewhere 0.008; slight serifs; nearly not slanting mu, xi without central hasta, very small omicron, slanting sigma, widely open upsilon.

Date: Third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1923 by Ferri at Cyrene ➚: agora.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 59. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Prêtre Philytas [fils d'Untel], étant démiurges Dexarkhos fils de Pro[klès], [---]amos fils de Prolytos, Aiglanôr [fils d'Untel]. Les récoltes ont été estimées: premier [semestre]: le médimne de froment, 8 drachmes; [d'orge, tant]; pois chiches, 12 drachmes; fèves [tant; les autres légumineuses ..]4 drachmes; amandes à coque tendre, [tant; à coque dure, tant]; raisin sec [---].

English translation

Priest Philytas [son of So-and-so], being damiergoi Dexarchos son of Pro[kles], [---]amos son of Prolytos, Aiglanor [son of So-and-so]. The crops were estimated: first [semester]: one medimnos of wheat, 8 drachmas; [of barley, so much]; chickpeas, 12 drachmas; beans, [so much; the other pulse, ..]4 drachmas; almonds with soft shells, [so much; with hard shells, so much]; raisins [---].

Italian translation

Sacerdote Philytas [figlio del tale], essendo damiurghi Dexarchos figlio di Pro[kles], [---]amos figlio di Prolytos, Aiglanor [figlio del tale]. Il raccolto è stato valutato: primo [semestre]: un medimno di frumento, 8 dracme; [di orzo, a tanto]; ceci, 12 dracme; fave, [a tanto: gli altri legumi, ..]4 dracme; mandorle a guscio tenero, [tanto; a guscio duro, tanto]; uva passa [---].

Arabic translation

في فترة الكاهن فيليتاس [بن فلان]، وكل من الداميرجوي ديكسارخوس بن برو[كليس]، و[---] اموس بن بروليتوس وإيجلانور [بن فلان]، المحاصيل قدرت كالتالي: أولا [الفصل الأول] الأول: مديمنوس من القمح، 8 دراخما [---]؛ الحمص، 12 دراخما؛ الفول [---] 4 دراخما؛ اللوز ذو القشورالهشة، [قيمة ما؛ ذو القشورالصلبة، قيمة ما]. الزبيب [---] .

Commentary

At lines 4-5, two types of restoration seem possible: either ἑξάμηνον was explicit and barley was missing for that year, either, as Oliverio proposed, the word 'semester' was subaudible and κριθᾶν was mentioned without unit, contrasting with the unit mentioned for wheat. We prefer the first solution for sake of clarity, notwithstanding the necessity of admitting a short space.

For the name of the priest, Gasperini suggested Philytas as a possibility, although he eventually preferred to restore Philekis, which he found well preserved in IGCyr081200², line 4. Rosamilia 2023, arguing that only the lower part of a hasta was preserved, choose to restore Philinos, which is the name (with same father's name) of a priest known from IGCyr009200². He proposed thus to identify the same man in both inscriptions, dating his priesthood between 270 and 260 BC. A new study of both Oliverio's photograph and our squeeze shows that the space between the lambda and the following letter is much larger that the spaces before and after the iota of the perceding syllable. This observation eliminates both Philinos and Philekis. We stick therefore to a fragmentary upsilon, although the identification suggested in IGCyr with Φιλύτας Εὐμηλίδα mentioned in the list of names IGCyr096700 is no longer valid (see commentary there).

For the father's name of the first damiergos, from the last preserved letter only a very short inferior part of a hasta is preserved; rather than iota, which gives no attested name, we prefer kappa, allowing to restore the name Prokles, which is attested six times at Cyrene during the IV and III century BC. This reading, enhanced by Rosamilia 2023, allows to plausibly relate (or identify) him with a priest of an unknown deity mentioned in IGCyr115000².

About the two species of almonds, see Dobias-Lalou 2000, p. 198.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr013400 Account of the damiergoi

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr013400 Account of the damiergoi

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