Support: Lower part of white marble panel recut for re-use (w: 0.26 × h: 0.13 × d: 0.08).

Layout: Inscribed in a sunk field with right and left margins 0.015 wide at a slightly higher level.

Letters: 0.01-0.012; narrow and pressed together letters without serifs; rho with smaller loop, non-slanting sigma.

Date: Between 250 and 230 BC (Rosamilia) (lettering, textual context).

Findspot: Found before 1933 at Cyrene ➚: agora.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 65. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

ụṇ ̣ṭạḷẹṇṭ d'oignons, 3 drachmes; un smireus d'huile, 7 drachmes; un médimne d'olives 2 drachmes. Total, les sacrifices ont été accomplis: 4280. Recette totale de l'année: 145 drachmes. Dépenses totales de l'année: (vac.). Rétribution pour les démiurges: 52 drachmes.

English translation

ọṇẹ ̣ṭạḷẹṇṭ of onions, 3 drachmas; one smireus of oil, 7 drachmas; one medimnos of olives, 2 drachmas. Summary, the sacrifices have been accomplished: 4280. Total income of the year: 145 drachmas. Total expense of the year: (vac.). Allowance for the damiergoi: 52 drachmas.

Italian translation

ụṇ ̣ṭạḷẹṇṭọ di cipolle, 3 dracme; uno smireus di olio, 7 dracme; un medimno di olive, 2 dracme. Totale, i sacrifici sono stati compiuti: 4280. Totale entrate dell'anno: 145 dracme. Totale uscite dell'anno: (vac.). Retribuzione per i damiurghi: 52 dracme.

Arabic translation

[---] تالنت واحد من البصل، 3 دراخما، لكل سميريوس من الزيت ، 7 دراخما؛ للميديمنوس الواحد من الزيتون، 2 دراخما. ملخص، الأضحيات قد تم تقديمها: 4280. إجمالي الدخل للسنة 145 دراخما. مجموع مصروفات السنة: (فراغ) . تعطى للداميرجوي: 52 دراخما.

Commentary

This account is organised in two semesters, but not inscribed in two columns, as will be more usual. This display happens only here, in IGCyr013400², IGCyr013700², IGCyr013800² and in IGCyr063900².

This account is irregular in several ways: no amount was cut for the total expense, the general income is very low and much lower than the expense for sacrifices. It might be that the spaces for those amounts were first left empty and were cut later by someone who mingled the different sums. However, the special allowance for damiergoi is notably lower than on all other years. The stone has 52 dr. (with the not rare order single number + tens), which Oliverio, perhaps rightly, corrected to 150. This hypothesis was endorsed by Rosamilia 2023, who thought that an order of numerals with units preceding tens would be unusual in Cyrenaica. That argument is not valid, as shown for instance in numerous epitaphs providing the age of the dead person. Anyway, that corrected amount would be still very far from the usual amount of 300 dr. So also Laronde 1987, pp. 331-333. Another hypothesis, retained by Oliverio for his translation, is that exceptionally the amounts were written at the head of the sentences (thus 4280 dr. as income and 145 dr. as expense). However, this would not explain the lack of 'rest' and the very low levels of both income and retribution for damiergoi. See another explanation at IGCyr014300².

For smireus as measure of liquids, see Dobias-Lalou 2020, pp. 189-191.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr014100 Account of the damiergoi

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr014100 Account of the damiergoi

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