Support: Fragment of a greyish marble block broken off on all sides but at right (preserved dimensions w: 0.165 × h: 0.09 × d: 0.07).

Layout: Inscribed on the face in at least two lines.

Letters: Carefully and deeply cut letters (0.0028) with thickening ends; symmetrical nu.

Date: Plausibly third or second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Plausibly found before World War II at Cyrene ➚, exact findspot not registered.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 441. Seen in 1977 by Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] au titre de la dîme.

English translation

[---] as a tithe.

Italian translation

[---] come decima.

Commentary

Although we lack information about the findspot and in spite of the lacunar condition of the stone, it belongs evidently to the bulk of dedications of the tithe to Apollo. We cannot know whether the formulation was the most implicit one, without verb and name of the divinity, or a more expanded one.

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Fig. 1. Squeeze of igcyr137200 Probably tithe

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