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IGCyr1113302
Trismegistos ID:
738647
Source description
Support: Stone ball from a series of twenty-three, some in limestone, others of sandstone, amongst which eleven carry letters (weight 2.9 kg; diameter 0.15).
Layout: Inscribed with one letter and perhaps another one apart.
Letters: 0.045.
Date: Between 246 and end of second century BC (context).
Findspot: Found during the excavations (1973-1975) conducted by J. Lloyd at Berenike ➚: in the area of Hellenistic city walls.
Place of origin: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Benghazi Museum (Sidi Khrebish excavations), H403. Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from: Transcription from editors.
Bibliography
Reynolds 2010, pp. 226-228, whence SEG, 60.1832; IGCyr 111330 ➚. Cf. Lloyd – Kenrick 2014, p. 138, fig. 17, whence SEG, 64.2013; Reynolds – Kenrick 2015, pp. 76-81, fig. 2, whence SEG, 65.2020.
Text
Apparatus
b.1: Perhaps no letter, but two strokes cut in the course of shaping the ball
French translation
a) Six. b) Trente (?)
English translation
a) Six. b) Thirty (?)
English translation
a) Sei. b) Trenta (?)
Commentary
See commentary at IGCyr1113002.
The ductus of digamma is the regional one, attested as a letter in the archaic alphabet IGCyr0007002 and as a specific Cyrenaean numeral in various inscriptions of the fifth and fourth century and mainly in the accounts of the damiergoi.
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Maps
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