Support: Five fragments of a white marble panel, three of which (a, b and c) adjoining to form the upper left angle, one (d) lose in the right middle part, another (e) giving the lower margin (fragments a+b+c w: 0.229 × h: 0.216; fragment d w: 0.079 × h: 0.105; fragment e w: 0.105 × h: 0.185; reconstructed total w: 0.41 × h: 0.46 × d: 0.045).

Layout: Inscribed on the whole width at ll. 1-7 (section a) and 28-31 (section c), on two columns (section b.i, section b.ii) at ll. 8-27.

Letters: 0.01; carefully cut, with slight serifs: low delta, alpha with dropped bar, rho with very small loop.

Date: Between 180 and 160 BC (Rosamilia) (lettering, textual context).

Findspot: Found before 1933 at Cyrene ➚: agora.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found. Studied from Oliverio's photograph (1933).

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Dieux. Prêtre [Untel]. Etant démiurges Bôlaklès [(scil. fils de) [---]], Kritôn [(scil. fils de) [---]], Philôn, fils de M[---]. Les récoltes ont été estimées.

Premier semestre: froment, le médimne, 308; orge, 180; fèves, 300; pois chiches, 308; [lentilles?], 204; autres légumineuses, 200; [ cumin, tant; amandes à coque tendre, tant; à coque dure, tant; vin, le smireus, tant; huile, tant; figues, le talent, tant; raisin sec, tant; ail, le talent, tant; oignons, tant; foin cultivé, la charretée, tant; sauvage, tant; paille, le filet, tant].

Second semestre: froment, [tant]; orge, [tant]; fèves, [tant]; [pois chiches, tant]; [lentilles, tant?]; autres légumineuses, [tant]; cumin, [tant]; amandes à coque tendre, [tant]; à coque dure, [tant]; vin, [le smireus, tant]; [huile, tant; figues, le talent, tant; raisin sec, tant; ail, le talent, tant; oignons, tant]; foin cultivé, la charretée, [tant]; sauvage, [tant]; paille, le filet, [tant].

Total, les sacrifices ont été accomplis recettes pendant l'année: [tant]. Dépenses totales pendant l'année, [tant]. Indemnité pour les démiurges, [tant].

English translation

Gods. Priest [So-and-so]. Being damiergoi Bolakles [(scil. son of) [---]], Kriton [(scil. son of) [---]], Philon, son of M[---]. The crops were estimated.

First semester: wheat, per medimnos, 308; barley, 180; beans, 300; chick peas, 308; [lentils?], 204; other pulse, 200; [cumin, so much; almonds with soft shells, so much; with hard shells, so much; wine, per smireus, so much; figs, per talent, so much; raisin, so much; garlic, per talent, so much; onions, so much; cultivated hay, per cartload, so much; wild, so much; straw, per net, suche price].

Second semester: wheat, [so much]; barley, [so much]; beans, [so much]; [chick peas, so much]; [lentils, so much?]; other pulse, [so much]; cumin, [so much]; almonds with soft shells, [so much]; with hard shells, [so much]; wine, [so much]; [figs, per talent, so much; raisin, so much; garlic, per talent, so much; onions, so much]; cultivated hay, per cartload, [so much]; wild, [so much]; straw, per net, [so much].

Total, the sacrifices have been accomplished, income in the year: [so much]. Total expense in the year, [so much]. Allowance for the damiergoi, [so much].

Italian translation

Dèi. Sacerdote [il tale]. Quando erano damiurghi Bolakles [(scil. figlio di) [---]], Kriton [(scil. figlio di) [---]], Philon figlio di M[---]. I raccolti sono stati valutati.

Primo semestre: grano, per medimno, 308; orzo, 180; fagioli, 300; ceci, 308; [lenticchie?], 204; altri legumi, 200; [cumino, tanto; mandorle a guscio tenero, tanto; a guscio duro, tanto; vino, per smireus, tanto; fichi, per talento, tanto; uva passa, tanto; aglio, per talento, tanto; cipolle, tanto; fieno coltivato, par carro, tanto; selvatico, tanto; paglia, per rete, tanto].

Secondo semestre: grano, [tanto]; orzo, [tanto]; fagioli, [tanto]; [ceci, tanto]; [lenticchie, tanto?]; altri legumi, [tanto]; cumino, [tanto]; mandorle a guscio tenero, [tanto]; a guscio duro, [tanto]; vino, [per smireus, tanto]; [fichi, per talento, tanto; uva passa, tanto; aglio, per talento, tanto; cipolle, tanto]; fieno coltivato, per carro, [tanto]; selvatico, [tanto]; paglia, per rete, [tanto].

Totale, i sacrifici sono stati compiuti, entrata nell'anno: [tanto]. Uscità totale [nell'anno]: [tanto]. Retribuzione per i damiurghi, [tanto].

Arabic translation

الآلهة. فترة الكاهن [فلان]. والداميرجوي بولاكليس [(بن) [---]] وكريتون [(بن) [---]] وفيلون، بن م [---]، قدرت المحاصيل كالتالي: الفصل الأول: القمح، لكل مديمنوس، 308؛ الشعير، 180؛ الفول، 300؛ الحمص، 308؛ [العدس؟]، 204؛ بقوليات آخرى، 200؛ [الكمون، قيمة ما؛ اللوز ذوالقشورالهشة، قيمة ما؛ ذوالقشورالصلبة، قيمة ما؛ النبيذ، لكل سميريوس، قيمة ما؛ التين، لكل تالنت، قيمة ما؛ الزبيب، قيمة ما؛ الثوم، لكل تالنت، قيمة ما؛ البصل، قيمة ما؛ التب المزروع ، لكل حمولة عربة، قيمة ما؛ التبن البري، قيمة ما؛ القش (الناتج عن درس الحبوب)، للشبكة الواحدة، قيمة ما]. الفصل الثاني: القمح، [قيمة ما]. الشعير، [قيمة ما]. الفول، [قيمة ما]. [الحمص، قيمة ما]. [العدس، قيمة ما ؟]؛ بقوليات أخرى، [قيمة ما]؛ الكمون، [قيمة ما]؛ اللوز ذوالقشورالهشة، [قيمة ما]، اللوز ذوالقشورالصلبة، [قيمة ما]؛ النبيذ، [قيمة ما]؛ [التين، للتالنت، قيمة ما؛ الزبيب، قيمة ما؛ الثوم، قيمة ما؛ البصل، قيمة ما]؛ التبن المزروع، لكل حمولة عربة، [قيمة ما]، التبن البري، [قيمة ما]؛ القش(الناتج عن درس الحبوب)، للشبكة الواحدة، [قيمة ما]. إجمالي، الأضحيات قد تم تقديمها، دخل السنة: [قيمة ما]. إجمالي النفقات من السنة، [قيمة ما]. تعطى للداميرجوي، [قيمة ما].

Commentary

This account, clearly displayed in two columns, is known only from Oliverio's publication. He provided a photograph of the fragments sticked on a hard support and his publication reflected that display. Rosamilia 2023, in turn, rightly questioned Oliverio's reconstruction on three points: 1) The lose fragment (d) might as well pertain to column 1; however, as it does not change the overall composition, the change is very light. 2) The fragment (e), which belongs to the bottom of the inscription, was erroneously placed by Oliverio at right and should be placed not far from the left edge, as shown by the content of the last line. 3) Lines 21 to 24, where both columns are missing, had been plausibly restored by Oliverio on basis of the order of products mentioned in IGCyr014300² and similar inscriptions. However, as argued by Rosamilia 2023/>, it is highly probable that olive oil was mentioned after wine, whence the new line 20, missing both in Oliverio's edition and in IGCyr. Olives should not be considered missing, as they are no longer mentioned in accounts later than the end of the third century.

In this account, the few numbers that are preserved are higher than the prices per unit given in the preceding centuries and lower than those mentioned in the contemporary IGCyr014400². Rosamilia 2016 (and Rosamilia 2017) was able to show that this reflects the change of monetary scale from silver standard to bronze standard in Cyrenaica in the first decades of the second century BC, shorlty after the change was deciced in Egypt.

At l. 30 the 'remainder' (λοιπόν) was not compulsorily mentioned (see also IGCyr014300²).

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