Support: Two adjacent fragments of white marble pillar broken on top, below and in the middle, bearing also IGCyr062800² and IGCyr062810² on the next side to the left, whereas IGCyr062820², the present text, IGCyr062840² and IGCyr062850² are cut on the same side, here considered the face; 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 stele; fragment b (w: 0.09 × h: 0.20 × d: 0.15) keeps the right edge of the stele.

Layout: Inscribed on the stele between IGCyr062820² and IGCyr062840².

Letters: 0.01; same hand as IGCyr062840² and IGCyr062850².

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

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

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

[---]ne[---], pas [---], ni en vendant les terrains ni en les hypothéquant, ni [ en les .. ? ..ant], ni en en privant sous quelque [prétexte] que ce soit [le dieu et les Cyrénéens].

English translation

[---]not[---] neither by selling the fields, nor mortgaging them, nor [.. ? ..ing] them, nor depriving of them on any account [the god and the Cyrenaeans].

Italian translation

[---]non [---] né vendendo li terreni, né ipotecandoli, né [.. ? ..andoli], né sottraendoli con nessun altro [pretesto al dio e ai Cirenei].

Commentary

Those lines, although not separated from the preceding ones (IGCyr062820²) and dealing with similar subjects, should be considered a different document, as they are written in koine and cut in larger letters. They might be a quotation from a Ptolemaic decision, on which the preceding decree would be modelled.

Rosamilia 2023 rightly pointed out that the rule is here not to alienate the fields belonging to Apollo, thus the income provided by them. Therefore, the lost paticiple at the beginning of line 3 should mean either 'donating' or 'appropriating'. He suggests restorations, none of which seems exactly fitting.

If the restoration at l. 5 is good, it would show that the fields belonging to Apollo were also considered a possession of the city.

The indications about the findspots were provided to C. Dobias-Lalou by E. Catani from Pernier's archive kept at the University of Macerata. Although both fragments were found separately, the distance between both spots is moderate and such small fragments may have been moved at any date in late antiquity or in modern times.

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Images

Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr062830 Prostagma (with 062820 above and 062840, 062850 below)

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr062830 Ptolemaic prostagma (?)

Fig. 3. Fragment a of igcyr062830 Prostagma (with 062820)

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