Support: Lead tablet, found open, but broken into 19 fragments: one larger fragment (a), broken off on all sides, but probably keeping the original first line and the left margin (w: 0.06 × h: 0.086 × d: 0.001), the rest consisting of two smaller, joining fragments (b + c) and sixteen tiny fragments (d-s) with one or two letters.

Layout: Engraved on one side, nearly stoichedon.

Letters: 0.003 to 0.004, no eta, no omega; epsilon with the lower bar sometimes leaning, slanting sigma and mu, dissymmetrical nu, upsilon without tail; some punctuation marks.

Date: Probably not after 400 BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1964 at Cyrene ➚: in a deposit on the agora, near the northern wall of the Temple of Apollo Archegetes.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

Apparatus

French translation

a) [Dieu?]. Ont été déposés [---] (voir commentaire l. 2) [---] de [Philo]kômos (voir commentaire l. 3) [---] des hiaromnamons [---] (voir commentaire l. 5) les éphores reçevant [---] . Mine(s) d'argent [---] vingt-huit mines [---], drachmes [---], un hémistatère [---].

Sous (scil. le prêtre) Hermèsandros, [---] cent mines [--- tant de] dizaines, drachmes [tant ---] les [---] quatre cents [---] mille [---] drachmes [---].

b-c) [---] et neuf [---] mille [---] statères [---].

d-s) Intraduisibles.

English translation

a) [God?]. Were deposited [---] (see commentary l. 2) [---] of [Philo]komos (see commentary l.3) [---] of the hiaromnamones [---] (see commentary l. 5) the ephori receiving [---] . Silver mine(s) [---] twenty-eight mines, [---] drachmas, [---] one hemistater [---].

Under (scil. priest) Hermesandros, [---] hundred mines [--- so many] tens, drachms [so many ---] the [---] four hundred [---] thousand [---] drachms [---].

b-c) [---] and nine [---] thousand [---] stateres [---].

d-s) Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

a) [Dio?]. Sono stati depositati [---] (vedi commento l. 2) [---] di [Philo]komos (vedi commento l. 3) [---] degli hieromnamones [---] (vedi commento l. 5) degli ephori ricevendo [---] . Mina/e d'argento [---] ventotto mine, [---] dracme, [---], un emistatere [---] .

Sotto (scil. il sacerdote) Hermesandros, [---] cento mine [--- tante] decine, dracme [tante ---] i/gli [---] quattrocento [---] mille [---] dracme [---].

b-c) [---] e nove [---] mille [---] stateri [---].

d-s) Intraducibili.

Arabic translation

أ): [مُؤلَّه؟]. أُودِعت [---] (راجع التعليق l.2) [---] لـ [فيلو] كوموس (انظر التعليق 1.3) [---] الهيرومنامونيس (أمناء السر المقدسين أو مسجلي المسائل المقدسة) [---] (انظر التعليق l. 5) استلام الفورون (المشرف أو الوصي) ثمانية وعشرون مناي [---]. منا(ي) من الفضة ، [---] دراخما، [---] هيرميستاتير (نصف استاتير) واحد [---]. في وقت (الكاهن) إرميساندروس، [---] مائة مناي [--- كثيرة جدًا] العشرات، دراخمات [--- كثيرة جدًا] ال [---] أربعمائة [---] ألف [---] دراخما [---]. ب +ج): [---] وتسعة [---] ألف [---] استاتير [---]. د-س): لا يمكن ترجمتها بشكل مفيد.

Commentary

In admitting that the first preserved letters at lines 4-9 are the beginning of the original lines, we follow Gasperini's explanation, drawing and photograph; however in editing the text, he admitted some letters missing at the beginning of those lines. That kind of difference we do not report in the apparatus.

Gasperini's restorations at lines 1 and 2 are based on the incipit of a list of fines paid by the Phocidians to the Delphian sanctuary of Apollo, who would be said here 'Apollo the Delphian' (Syll.3 231), a phrase that only occurs in much later and different contexts. Furthermore the hiaromnamones mentioned at line 4 may be Cyrenaean authorities as well as Delphian ones. On the whole, the Delphian interpretation seems uncertain, all the more so that another account found along with this one (IGCyr081200²) and probably related to it clearly registers local deposits. What appears at least is that we have at line 2 the end of a name (either a nominative or a genitive) and the beginning of another one built upon the ambiguous root Delph-. We preferred since the first edition to leave open the question whether they are personal names or a god's name and epithet. If ever the first name was Apollo's, it should be reminded that Delphinios is a cultic epithet of Apollo in Thera (IG, XII 3.537), as it is elsewhere in inscriptions and literature with also a variant Delphidios in some inscriptions of Crete (see Bile 1993, pp. 169-170). Rosamilia 2023 supports the parallel and suggests that the text might be ἐν το̄ι το̄ Ἀπόλλο̄νος Δελφινίο̄ ἱαρο̄ι, where however the absence of an article before the divine epithet would be a little strange.

At line 3, the segment πεμπ might be either a form of the present tense of the verb 'to send' or part of the numeral 'fifth'. Neither meaning is clear.

At line 5, we wrote at IGCyr that φόρον might be either the noun 'tribute' or part of a compound adjective such as διάφορος 'different'. We now endorse Rosamilia 2023's tantalizing suggestion : a mention of the ephori, who at the genitive plural would match the participle λαβόντο̄ν. This implies that in the lacuna at line 4 another participle would match the hiaromnamones.

The isolated alpha at the beginning of line 6 might be the end of a number of tens, but many otger possibilites do exist.

At line 8, as the 'mines' were mentioned above at the nominative case, the genitive plural of 'stateres' should be avoided. We did by restoring the smaller unit 'hemistater', for which see Laronde 1987, p. 235.

We give here the precise findspot by combining Gasperini's rather vague indications with the chronology of the excavations in and around the temple given by Purcaro 2001, p. 19.

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Fig. 1. Fragment a of igcyr081100 Account

Fig. 2. Drawing of fragments a and b+c of igcyr081100 Account

Fig. 3. Drawing of fragments d to s of igcyr081100 Account

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