Support: Lower right corner of a white marble panel, slightly tapering (w: 0.115 × h: 0.155 × d: 0.03 to 0.003).

Layout: Inscribed on front face, the three upper lines much deteriorated by strokes.

Letters: 0.009 to 0.012; shorter right stroke of nu, slanting mu and sigma, xi with three horizontal bars; the space between the surviving letters of line 8 is somewhat larger, either because that line was highlighted or because the line was shorter, allowing larger spaces.

Date: Late fourth or early third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1993 in a votive depot South of Cyrene ➚: in the area of Wadi el Aish.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 4575. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1993 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[---] et ailleurs [---] acheter des objets profanes [---]; et si l'on vend [---], pris sur les biens d'autrui [--- si] d'autres (scil. biens) sont à lui [---] la valeur/sans valeur [---].

English translation

[---] and elsewhere [---] to buy secular objects [---]; and if one sells [---] from someone else's belongings [--- if] other (scil. properties) belong him [---] the value/valueless [---].

Italian translation

[---] e altrove [---] comprare oggetti profani [---]; e se uno vende [---] dai beni altrui [--- se] altri (scil. beni) sono sui [---] la valore/senza valore [---].

Commentary

These poor rests clearly contain prescriptions implying the opposition between sacred and secular properties. A first discussion was developed by Mohamed – Reynolds – Dobias-Lalou 2007, giving way to IGCyr109400. Rosamilia 2023 adds some interesting insights: A. At line 6, the verbe being at the singular, the subject should be either a masculine singular or a neuter plural. It is thus preceded by the personal pronoun at the dative. The subject was therefore very probably a neuter plural (as well as the adjective 'secular' at line 4). B. He prefers the reading ἁ τιμά, but does not interpret the following kappa, which might have a numeral value, as proposed earlier, rather than belong to a new word, with a very awkward cut in a non-stoichedon text. Therefore, we prefer to leave now the question open.

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