Support: Two adjacent fragments of a white marble pillar broken on top, below and in the middle, which bore also IGCyr062800², IGCyr062810², IGCyr062830², IGCyr062840² and IGCyr062850²; ; IGCyr097600² is probably the upper part of the pillar; IGCyr097150² might also belong to the collection. Fragment a (w: 0.20 × h: 0.11 × d: 0.25) keeps the left edge of the face; fragment b (w: 0.09 × h: 0.20 × d: 0.15) keeps the right edge of the face.

Layout: Inscribed on the side to the right of IGCyr062800² and IGCyr062810²; fragment a has been recut on top, so that the letters of line 1 are curtailed; both fragments are joining below at the level of IGCyr062830², but do not provide a complete line for the present inscription.

Letters: 0.007

Date: Between 139 and 132 BC (rather than 124/116 for Rosamilia) (reign).

Findspot: Fragment b was found on September 29th, 1929 by L. Pernier at Cyrene ➚: in the Temple of Artemis; fragment a was found also by L. Pernier on August 9th 1932 in the Greek Theatre.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 572 (fragment a) and 60 (fragment b). Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[---] mis(e) en vente en avant du village [---] publics/ques [---] affermé.

English translation

[---] offered for sale ahead of the village [---] public [---] leased.

Italian translation

[---] messa/i in vendita davanti al villaggio [---] pubblica/i [---] affittato.

Commentary

This fragmentary text mentions the status of some fields and the language is the dialect, like in IGCyr062810², but the hand is different so that it may be supposed that it belongs to another decree of the city. Rosamilia 2023 suggests that line 4 should belong to the next document on the stone, i.e. IGCyr062830². He might be right, but with so poor fragments neither position seems really secure. At the beginning of the line, although his reading is convincing, it does not help to decide, as it is not clear whether we have here the god's name or a personal name built with it. Moreover, ending the present document with δαμοσια would be quite strange.

At the beginning of line 2, the use of dialect allows either κα πο[ησ---] or a form of κᾶπος 'garden'.

At the end of line 2, πωλειμενα could be either a feminine singular (πωλειμένα) or a neutral plural (πωλείμενα) of the present middle participle. The same for δαμοσία or δαμόσια, which are probably related to the same lost word.

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. They were perhaps all found during the Italian period, like both fragments of IGCyr062830².

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Images

Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr062820 Decree (with 062830, 062840, 062850 below)

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr062820 Decree

Fig. 3. Fragment a of igcyr062820 Decree (with 062830)

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