Support: Fragment of a white marble circular basin, preserving part of the rim, moulded belly and flat bottom (pricked on the inner side); (w: 0.185 × d: 0.11).

Layout: Inscribed on the rim (high 0.027), to be read from the centre.

Letters: 0.022; with intervals of 0.055; no serifs, broadly open alpha.

Date: Probably fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1930 at Cyrene ➚: plausibly Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 103. Seen by C.Dobias-Lalou in 1979 and again in 2010 in Shahat, Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] dîme [---].

English translation

[---] tithe [---].

Italian translation

[---] decima [---].

Commentary

The fragment had been photographed alongside with IGCyr118900² and IRCyr2020 C.695, about which J.M. Reynolds informs that the photograph was taken in 1930. Furthermore, the photograph shows that the fragment has been slightly chipped off at the left end since the snapshot was taken, so that the fragmentary epsilon at the beginning was no longer detectable when C. Dobias-Lalou studied the fragment in 1979.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr119600 Tithe

Fig. 2. First at right, face of igcyr119600 Tithe

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