Support: Three fragments pasted together of a white marble block, broken off at left, above, below and at back (preserved dimensions w: 0.14 × h: 0.17 × d: 0.105).

Layout: Inscribed on the face by different hands.

Letters: Hand 1: 0.012 only omega: the rest of the line may have had taller letters. Hand 2: 0.022 serifs; non-slanting sigma. Hand 3: 0.017 serifs; non-slanting sigma, widely open upsilon. Hand 4: 0.015 serifs; xi with central hasta.

Date: Perhaps second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Seen in 1977 by C. Dobias-Lalou at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 470. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] [] fils de [---]os, [---] fils de [---]klès, [---] fils de Timagénès, [---] fils d'Ammônios, [---] fils de [---]ès, [---] fils de [---]oxénos, [---].

English translation

[---] [] son of [---]os, [---] son of [---]kles, [---] son of Timagenes, [---] son of Ammonios, [---] son of [---]es, [---] son of [---]oxenos, [---].

Italian translation

[---] [] figlio di [---]os, [---] figlio di [---]kles, [---] figlio di Timagenes, [---] figlio di Ammonios, [---] figlio di [---]es, [---] figlio di [---]oxenos, [---].

Commentary

Because of the bad condition of the stone, the differences between hands are only clear for ll. 1-4, but ll. 5-6 may well have also been cut each independantly. Nevertheless, this inscription is typologically similar to other lists of priests, whose names were added successively on the stone. In the first edition, only eponymous priests of Apollo were taken into consideration. Rosamilia 2023 brought new insights into such lists of names. He was able to show that for instance IGCyr107000² might rather be a list of priests of Zeus Soter, to which he tentatively suggested that the present list might belong. This is in fact impossible because the support is no panel, but a block broken off at back: the similar depth of both stones is random.

No convincing prosopographical relations may be established for the men mentioned here because we have only their fathers' names.

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