Support: Panel of white marble cut above in the shape of a pediment (total w: 1.14 × h: 0.63 × d: 0.26; without cymatium height 0.445).

Layout: Inscribed in 8 lines, line 1 displayed on the whole length, the other lines aligned along the left margin.

Letters: 0.053 at l. 1; 0.05 at l. 2 ff.

Date: Between 340 and 330 BC (prosopography).

Findspot: Found in 1933 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene ➚: in the Western part of theSanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚: possibly from the Doric Treasury.

Last recorded location: Seen in 1982 by C. Dobias-Lalou at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, inside the Strategeion. E. Rosamilia studied between 2019 and 2022 an ancient plaster moulding of the panel kept in Rome: Università degli Studi

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Dîme à Apollon prise sur les Maques et les Nasamons. Stratèges: Hermèsandros fils de Théaros, Zènis fils de Praxiadas, Theupheidès fils de Iasis, Mnasarkhos fils de Theukhrestos, Télésarkhos fils de Mnasis.

English translation

Tithe for Apollo taken from Makai and Nasamones. Generals: Hermesandros son of Thearos, Zenis son of Praxiadas, Theupheides son of Iasis, Mnasarchos son of Theuchrestos, Telesarchos son of Mnasis.

Italian translation

Decima ad Apollo presa ai Makai e ai Nasamones. Strateghi: Hermesandros figlio di Thearos, Zenis figlio di Praxiadas, Theupheides figlio di Iasis, Mnasarchos figlio di Theuchrestos, Telesarchos figlio di Mnasis.

Arabic translation

أُخِذَ العشر لأبولو من الماكاي والناسامونيس. القادة: هيرميساندروس بن ثياروس، زينيس بن براكسياداس، ثيوفيدس بن إياسيوس، مناسارخوس بن ثيوخريستوس، تيليسارخوس بن مناسيس.

Commentary

A. Laronde (Laronde 1987, pp. 52-58 and 182) discussed family ties of Mnasarchos (l. 7) and dated the dedication.

We now have probably the father of Hermesandros in IGCyr121600².

Oliverio, in editio princeps, only said that the panel had been found 'in the excavations to the west of the Fountain Terrace'. In his report of the excavations of year 1933 (see Luni 2014, p. 139), he more precisely suggested that it might be related to the ruins of a small offering or temple which were perceivable at the far end of that terrace and which he intended to investigate later on. Stucchi, relying on those informations (then still unpublished) pushed that interesting theory ahead, supposing that the building was a Doric Traesury erected symmetrically with the Strategeion. Unfortunately no further excavation took place there, which might bring further confirmation (see Laronde 1987, p. 182).

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr017100 Tithe for Apollo by generals

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