Support: Two non adjacent fragments of a white marble pillar bearing also IGCyr062800², IGCyr062810², IGCyr062820², IGCyr062830², and IGCyr062840²; IGCyr097600² is probably the upper part of the pillar; IGCyr097150² might also belong to the collection. fragment a (w: 0.04 × h: 0.105 × d: 0.17), broken on all sides except on the left, is cut on the face next to IGCyr062810² on its left; fragment b (w: 0.07 × h: 0.16 × d: 0.16) is broken on all sides except on the right.

Layout: Inscribed under IGCyr062840².

Letters: 0.01; same hand as IGCyr062830² and IGCyr062840².

Date: Between 139 and 132 BC (rather than 124/116, Rosamilia) (lettering, reign).

Findspot: Found before 1956 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 84 (fragm. a) and 304 (fragm. b). Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] sans [---] conformément aux [---] dont ils ont délibéré [---] vers/ en rapport avec cela [---] des dieux [---].

English translation

[---] without [---] following the [---] about which they have deliberated [---] regarding those matters [---] of the gods [---].

Italian translation

[---] senza [---] conformemente a [---] su cui hanno deliberato [---] riguardo queste faccende [---] degli dèi [---].

Commentary

Because a part is lost, it cannot be decided whether IGCyr062840² is the beginning of the same document or of a different one; anyway this is again a text in koine and should come from the Ptolemaic authorities.

The gods mentioned at l. 9 may be either traditional Greek gods or the divinised royals.

The inventory numbers show that at least some parts of the stone were already in the epigraphic collection at the time of the reorganization of the Cyrenaean antiquities after World War II care of Goodchild (from 1956 on) and before Fraser observed one of them. They were perhaps all found during the Italian period, like both fragments of IGCyr062830².

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Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr062850 Decree (with 062820, 062830, 062840 above)

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr062850 Decree

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