IGCyr2 | GVCyr2
Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Fragment of an official document

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0628002
Trismegistos ID: 738331

Source description

Support: Fragment of a white marble pillar broken on all sides except at right, probably surmounted by IGCyr0976002 and bearing also IGCyr0628102, IGCyr0628202, IGCyr0628302, IGCyr0628402, IGCyr0628502, and less surely IGCyr0971502 (w: 0.045 × h: 0.035 × d: 0.08).

Layout: Inscribed on one side above IGCyr0628102, whereas IGCyr0628202 and IGCyr0628302 are on the right side of the same fragment; IGCyr0976002 is probably the upper part of the pillar; IGCyr0971502 might also belong to the collection.

Letters: 0.007; small serifs.

Date: Between 139 and 132 BC (Rosamilia, who prefers this date to 124-116 BC) (lettering, reign).

Findspot: Found by L. Pernier on August 9th 1932 at Cyrene: in the Greek Theatre.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 572. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Dobias-Lalou 2000, whence SEG, 50.1639; IGCyr 062800 ; Rosamilia 2023, pp. 240-243, number 4, document II (text).

Text

Interpretive

[------]
[---]ΣΕ[..]
[---]Ε δὲ αὐ̣-
---]ΚΕΝ
[------]

Diplomatic

[------]
[---]ΣΕ[++]
[---]ΕΔΕΑ.
[.---]ΚΕΝ
[------]

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

An unclear fragment of a public document engraved amongst a dossier (see Dobias-Lalou 2000). The inventory numbers show that at least some parts of the stone were already in the epigraphic collection at the time of the reorganization of the Cyrenaean antiquities after World War II care of Goodchild (from 1956 on) and before Fraser observed one of them. In fact for this fragment we now know the circumstances of the find, see at IGCyr0628302.

IGCyr0976002 might be the upper left part of this block: see the commentary there.

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