Support: Grey marble block, recut at left for re-use (w: 1.07 × h: 0.3 × d: 0.66).

Layout: Inscribed in columns of three lines each, probably 3 in number, followed by one line on the whole width.

Letters: 0.025; careful lettering.

Date: Between 345 and 340 BC (prosopography).

Findspot: Found in 1925 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, re-used in the frigidarium of the Trajanic Baths.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚, Sanctuary of Apollo, part of the second phase of the Temple of Apollo.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1983 placed on two Corinthian capitals along the North wall of the frigidarium of the Trajanic Baths. Seen by E. Rosamilia in 2012 at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transcription from the stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[---] (i.e. trois noms avec patronymes),

[Untel fils d'Untel, Untel] fils de [---]as, [Untel] fils de [---]mos,

Stasis, fils de Damis, Philôn fils d'Annikeris, Nikodamos fils de Damônax,

[c. 8 - 9] ont dédié le portail [durant leur stratégie?].

English translation

[---] (i.e. three names with fathers' names),

[So-and-so son of So-and-so, So-and-so] son of [---]as, [So-and-so] son of [---]mos,

Stasis, son of Damis, Philon son of Annikeris, Nikodamos son of Damonax,

[c. 8 - 9] dedicated the portal [while being strategoi?].

Italian translation

[---] (i.e. tre nomi con patronimici),

[il tale figlio del tale, il tale] figlio di [---]as, [il tale] figlio di [---]mos,

Stasis figlio di Damis, Philon figlio di Annikeris, Nikodamos figlio di Damonax,

[c. 8 - 9] dedicarono il portale [mentre erano strateghi?].

Commentary

Pernier, on the base of the probable number of nine dedicants suggested that they might have been nomophylakes and Stucchi preferred ephoroi. There are no good arguments for any of those hypotheses, especially at the date provided through lettering and prosopography. Laronde 1987, p. 110 supplied at line 3 στραταγοί on the base of Philon's office as a triakatiarchos in IGCyr084000²; although this does not imply that he later became a general, Rosamilia 2023 goes on this track. However, he rightly points out that the space available allows to restore only 12-14 letters. The mention of Apollo is not necessary and στραταγέντες fits the space perfectly. Alternatively, Rosamilia also suggests a dedication by telesphoroi, which would be parallel with IGCyr099400², but exceeds siglhtly the space available. For the number 9, he convincingly suggests to explain it in relation with the division of the civic body into three tribes.

As Pernier already suspected in 1935, this stone is probably part of the architrave of the pronaos in Apollo's temple. For the meaning of ὀπά see Dobias-Lalou 2013, pp. 182-183. The architrave was later cut into two blocks, then sculpted in the shape of lion's feet, both found in the frigidarium of the Trajanic Baths. In the modern restoration, one was placed together with a Corinthian capital as support of a basin, itself re-used from the Greek propylaeum and inscribed in the second century CE as IRCyr2020 C.242, making its study now impossible. The other one was placed in the same room of the Trajanic Baths as described above.

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