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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Fragment of official document from the city or the Ptolemies

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0628402
Trismegistos ID: 738334

Source description

Support: Fragment of white marble pillar broken on top and below and in the middle, bearing on the same side IGCyr0628202 and IGCyr0628302 (on this fragment and another one) and IGCyr0628502 and on next side to left IGCyr0628102 and IGCyr0628002; IGCyr0976002 is probably the upper part of the pillar; IGCyr0971502 might also belong to the collection. Present fragment w: 0.09 × h: 0.20 × d: 0.15.

Layout: Inscribed under IGCyr0628302 in only four preserved lines of which the right ends survive.

Letters: 0.01; same hand as IGCyr0628302 and IGCyr0628502.

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

Findspot: Found on September 29th, 1929 by L. Pernier at Cyrene: in the Temple of Artemis.

Place of origin: Cyrene.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 60. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Dobias-Lalou 2000, whence SEG, 50.1639.B.III; IGCyr 062840 ; Rosamilia 2023, pp. 240-243, number 4, document VI (text).

Text

Interpretive

[c. 25] γεγραμ-
[μένc. 1 - 2] [c. 22]ΤΕ (vac. 3)
[c. 26]ΙΑ
[c. 27 σ]ύν
[------]

Diplomatic

[+++++++++++++++++++++++++]ΓΕΓΡΑΜ
[...c. 1 - 2++++++++++++++++++++++]ΤΕ      
[++++++++++++++++++++++++++]ΙΑ
[+++++++++++++++++++++++++++.]ΥΝ
[------]

Apparatus

4: [σ]ύν: ΥΝ Dobias-Lalou 2000

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Commentary

Those poor rests cannot be interpreted. However the segment which should be the participle γεγραμμέν[ος] at any case and gender is a hint for a reference to some public decision being copied or transcribed or to a royal letter being sent to the Cyrenaeans.

Because of the gap, it cannot be decided whether IGCyr0628502 is another part of the same document.

About the findspot and date see at IGCyr0628302.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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