Support: Fragment of a white marble panel broken off on all sides (w: 0.11 × h: 0.145 × d: 0.06).

Layout: Inscribed on the whole width at ll. 3-7, on two columns from l. 8 on.

Letters: On lines 4 to 8 0.009, from line 9 on 0.007; serifs, non-slanting sigma, widely open upsilon.

Date: Between 150 and 130 BC (Rosamilia) (lettering, textual context).

Findspot: Found before 1933 at Cyrene ➚: agora.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 269. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[Dieux. Prêtre Untel, étant démiurges Untel] fils d'E[---], [Untel] fils de Z[---], [---]goras fils d'Ar[---], les récoltes ont été estimées.

Premier semestre: [le médimne de froment], 42 000 (scil. drachmes); le médimne [d'orge], 24 600 ; [de fèves], 42 000; [de pois chiches], 72 000; [de lentilles], 72 000; [les autres légumineuses], 35 000; [---].

Second semestre: de froment, [tant]; d'orge, [tant]; de fèves, [tant]; de pois chiches, [tant]; de lentilles, [tant]; les autres légumineuses, [tant]; [---].

English translation

[Gods. Priest So-and-so, being damiergoi So-and-so] son of E[---], [So-and-so] son of Z[---], [---]goras son of Ar[---], the crops were estimated.

First semester: [the medimnos of wheat], 42 000 (scil. drachmas); the medimnos [of barley], 21 600 ; [of beans], 42 000; [of chick peas], 72 000; [of lentils], 72 000; [the other pulse], 35 000; [---].

Second semester: of wheat, [so much]; of barley, [so much]; of beans, [so much]; of chick peas, [so much]; of lentils, [so much]; other pulse, [so much]; [---].

Italian translation

[Dèi. Sacerdote il tale, quando erano damiurghi il tale] figlio di E[---], [il tale] figlio di Z[---], [---]goras figlio di Ar[---], i raccolti sono stati valutati.

Primo semestre: [un medimno di grano], 42 000 (scil. dracme); un medimno [di orzo], 21 600; [di fave], 42 000; [di ceci], 72 000; [di lenticchie], 72 000; [gli altri legumi], 35 000; [---].

Secondo semestre: di grano, [tanto]; di orzo, [tanto]; di fave, [tanto]; di ceci, [tanto]; di lenticchie, [tanto]; gli altri legumi, [tanto]; [---].

Arabic translation

[الآلهة. فترة الكاهن فلان وكل من الداميرجوي فلان] بن إي [---] و[فلان] بن ز [---] و[---] جوراس بن أر [ ---]، تم تقدير المحاصيل كالتالي: الفصل الأول: [ميديمني من القمح]، 000 42 (دراخما)؛ ميديمني [من الشعير]، 600 24؛ [من الفول]، 000 42؛ [من الحمص]، 000 72؛ [من العدس]، 000 72؛ [من بقوليات أخرى]، 000 35؛ [---]. الفصل الثاني: من القمح، [قيمة ما]. من الشعير، [قيمة ما]. من الفول، [قيمة ما]. من البازلاء، [قيمة ما]. من العدس، [قيمة ما].قوليات أخرى، [قيمة ما]؛ [---].

Commentary

Ll. 9-13 are clearly not formulated in the same way as in the other accounts, as the numerals are huge. However, the system of numerals in use here seems to be the same as in IGCyr014300², i.e. M for 10000, 𐅦 for 1000 and then the hundreds (so Χ for 600), tens and single numbers expressed by the different letters of the alphabet. The amounts given for each product are very high, so that Oliverio imagined a special system for this only account. First of all, in the first ligature he identified a pi, which would be very different from the one at line 7. Dobias-Lalou thinks that it is nearer to a mu, whereas Oliverio's interpretation of the three orders as drachma, obol and chalkous would be totally unparalleled (so Dobias-Lalou 2017). An explanation proposed at IGCyr would be that the numerals given at each line should not correspond to an individual price of one product, but to the total number of medimni (hence the plural of that word restored in the first edition). However, this seems somewhat irrealistic. Now, Rosamilia 2017 (and again Rosamilia 2023) has a more plausible explanation: the numbers correspond to the total income for all the medimni gathered during the semester, calculated in bronze drachms of the bronze standard system which were in use since the years 180 BC. (N.B. at Rosamilia 2023, pp. 186-187, this inscriptions is erroneously mentioned with number 63).

L. 5: for the father's name of the second damiergos, neither the stone in its present condition nor Oliverio's photograph do confirm the presence of an alpha after the inital zeta. As no personal name beginning with ΖΑ is known, we preferred already for IGCyr to drop Oliverio's reading. Much more plausible would be a name beginning with Ζη or Ζε.

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