EpiDoc XML:
IGCyr0630102
Trismegistos ID:
120632
Source description
Support: Pink and blue marble circular base re-used upside down for IGCyr0630002 (height 0.31; diameter 0.60).
Layout: Inscribed on vertical side, erased when re-used but for the last two lines.
Letters: 0.008-0.01; slight serifs.
Date: Between 150 and 109 BC (context, lettering).
Findspot: Found in 1936 at Cyrene ➚: in the agora.
Place of origin: Probably findspot.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 345. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Seen by E. Rosamilia in 2010 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.
Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL and ER).
Bibliography
Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961, p. 31, n. 11 b (from †Oliverio's papers), whence SEG, 20.725; Sammelbuch 10078; Rosamilia 2014, n. 9 and fig. 9, whence SEG, 64.2012; IGCyr 063010 ➚.
Text
Apparatus
1-3: those lines not mentioned before E. Rosamilia
French translation
⟦[------]⟧ ⟦[------]⟧ ⟦[------]⟧ (scil. a été consacré) ⟦par les Cyrénéens⟧.
Oeuvre d'Euphranôr fils de Sôsarkhos, Cyrénéen.
English translation
⟦[------]⟧ ⟦[------]⟧ ⟦[------]⟧ (scil. was dedicated) ⟦by the Cyrenaeans⟧.
Made by Euphranor son of Sosarchos, a Cyrenaean.
Italian translation
⟦[------]⟧ ⟦[------]⟧ ⟦[------]⟧ (scil. è stata dedicata) ⟦dai Cirenei⟧.
Opera di Euphranor figlio di Sosarchos, cireneo.
Arabic translation
〚[------]〛〚[------]〛〚[------]〛 (كُرِس)〚من قبل الكيرينيين〛.صُنِع من قبل إفرانور بن سوسارخوس، كيريني (شخص من كيريني).
Commentary
From what remains of the formula, we may guess that this was the dedication by the Cyrenaeans of a statue of a Ptolemy or some person of high rank. Those indications were erased, but the artist's signature was kept. However, as the letters were upside down it was of no use for IGCyr0630002. This makes plausible that the statue itself was also re-used. Anyway the lettering of the signature is not much older than that of the later use, which provides a terminus ante quem.
We know of the date and place of discovery through Luni 2014, p.153. It is not quite sure that for this first use the stone already stood in the agora.
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