IGCyr2 | GVCyr2
Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Unclear

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1174002
Trismegistos ID: 738722

Source description

Support: Fragment of a medium-grained white marble block with convex surface (w: 0.116 × h: 0.091; diameter 0.045).

Layout: Inscribed on encrusted curved surface.

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: Perhaps late second or early first century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1976 during the American excavations at Cyrene: Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, area C12/13.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations, 76-215. Seen by J. Reynolds at Shahat: in the Storeroom of the American excavations. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Reynolds 2012, n. A.15 (no image) ; IGCyr 117400 .

Text

Interpretive

[------]
[---]ΑΤ[---]
[---](vac. 1)ΕΤ[---]

Diplomatic

[------]
[---]ΑΤ[---]
[---]  ΕΤ[---]

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

Nothing is clear in this poor fragment.

At line 2, Δαμάτρι would be a possible guess but this cannot be pushed too far.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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