Support: White marble base broken into two adjacent pieces, with right upper angle broken off, all edges chipped off, especially the lower one, and front surface in very poor condition (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed in three lines on front face.

Letters: Height unknown; broad delta, very small circular letters, nu shorter at right, slanting mu and sigma.

Date: End of fourth or beginning of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1935 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, probably lower terrace.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960. Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Arkhénomidas fils de Polianthès (scil. a consacré ce monument) au titre de la dîme.

English translation

Archenomidas son of Polianthes (scil. dedicated this monument) as a tithe.

Italian translation

Archenomidas figlio di Polianthes (scil. ha dedicato questo monumento) come decima.

Commentary

The stone is known only from a photograph, which allows to give a date from the lettering and to improve the reading of the father's name.

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Images

Fig. 1. Face of igcyr098660 Tithe

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