Support: Fragment of a white marble panel broken on all sides except at left (w: 0.155 × h: 0.15 × d: 0.04).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.01; carefully cut letters, with varying spaces.

Date: Between 220 and 180 BC (Rosamilia) (lettering, internal context).

Findspot: Found in 1933 at Cyrene ➚: reused in a modern building («demolizione della cosidetta Palazzina Radio», according to Oliverio) on the acropolis, thus plausibly from the agora.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 53. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum; a small part was then lost (ll. 1-2).

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[lentilles] le médimne, [tant]; autres légumineuses, le médimne, [tant]; cumin, le médimne, [tant]; amandes à coque tendre, le médimne, [tant]; à coque dure, le médimne, [tant]; huile, le smireus, [tant]; vin, le smireus, [tant]; figues, le talent, [tant]; [---].

English translation

[lentils], per medimnos, [so much]; other pulse, per medimnos, [so much]; cumin, per medimnos, [so much]; almonds with soft shells, per medimnos, [so much]; with hard shells, per medimnos, [so much]; oil, per smireus, [so much]; wine, per smireus, [so much]; figs, per talent, [so much]; [---].

Italian translation

[lenticchie], per medimno, [tanto]; altri legumi, per medimno, [tanto]; cumino, per medimno, [tanto]; mandorle a guscio tenero, per medimno, [tanto]; a guscio duro, per medimno, [tanto]; olio, per smireus, [tanto]; vino, per smireus, [tanto]; fichi, per talento, [tanto]; [---].

Arabic translation

]عدس[، لكل ميديمنوس، [قيمة ما]؛ بقوليات آخرى، لكل ميديمنوس، [قيمة ما]؛ الكمون، لكل ميديمنوس، [قيمة ما]؛ اللوز ذوالقشور الهشة، لكل ميديمنوس، [قيمة ما]، اللوز ذوالقشور الصلبة، لكل ميديمنوس، [قيمة ما]؛ الزيت، لكل سميريوس، [قيمة ما]؛ النبيذ، لكل سميريوس، [قيمة ما]؛ التين، لكل تالنت، [قيمة ما]؛ [---].

Commentary

The different products being written each on a line, this account was presumably divided into two columns, one for each half-year. If so, we have here vestiges of the first one and the second is wholly restored on behalf of parallelism. Together with a similar lettering, this is a good reason which leads to place it in the same group as IGCyr014000², IGCyr014200² and IGCyr014300², although no price is preserved in this small fragment. Indeed E. Rosamilia (Rosamilia 2016) has now shown that the change from silver standard to bronze standard took place in Cyrenaica about 220 BC and he was also able (Rosamilia 2017) to place this group before 180 BC.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr014600 Account of the damiergoi

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr014600 Account of the damiergoi

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