Support: Small white marble, plain rectangular base with hollow for attachment on top (w: 0.605 × h: 0.15 × d: 0.465).

Layout: Inscribed on front face in three lines, all beginning at the left edge.

Letters: 0.028; no serifs; mu and sigma slightly slanting, smaller omicron, widely open upsilon; line 3 might be later, with a less careful and deeper lettering.

Date: Second half of fourth century BC

Findspot: Found before 1935 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, reused upside down in a later wall West of the Strategeion.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo.

Last recorded location: Seen in 1960 by Pugliese Carratelli at findspot, in the Sanctuary of Apollo. Seen in 2001 by C. Dobias-Lalou at findspot.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Philokômos fils de Kleudamos; dîme.

English translation

Philokomos son of Kleudamos; tithe.

Italian translation

Philokomos figlio di Kleudamos; decima.

Commentary

The formulation is not common. There is no syntactic relation between the personal name and the mention of tithe, which might have been added in a second time.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr098800 Tithe

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