Support: Block of limestone architrave, broken or perhaps recut at left for re-use; along the upper edge three guttae surmounted by a ruler are preserved on width 0.20 at the right end (w: 2.08 × h: 0.445; depth not accessible; height estimated, as the lower part cannot be unearthed; all observations by Laronde).

Layout: Inscribed on one line at a distance of 0.18 from the upper edge.

Letters: 0.085; no serifs, short right stroke of pi; the first four letters are very faint if compared with the others.

Date: Fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1925 at Cyrene ➚: re-used at bottom of the retaining wall of the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚.

Last recorded location: Observed by A. Laronde in the years 1980 at the same place, below the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor and Laronde's archive (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[Untel] a consacré [---] et la porte.

English translation

[So-and-so] dedicated [---] and the door.

Italian translation

[Il tale] ha dedicato [---] e la porta.

Commentary

This is one of the architraves bearing a dedication of a monumental door (see IGCyr099400², IGCyr020700², IGCyr022400², IGCyr096800²). It was registered in SEG, 9.79 from a photograph in Pernier's article and Oliverio's simple transcription.

We also have a sketch with measures and transcription by Laronde, who saw nothing before καί; the same may be said of Pernier's photograph. Oliverio transcribed two letters there, so that the verb ἀνέθηκε is unescapable. However we do not know on what behalf two more letters are given as readable in SEG.

Rosamilia 2023 suggested that IGCyr018500² might belong to the same inscription. Mnastokles would have dedicated a monument (or rather part of monument) and its door. As to the dimensions of the blocks and the size of the letters, this is quite possible. The main problem is that we do not know the original place or neither of them.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr017300 Dedication of a door

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