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Accounts of the damiergoi

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0881002
Trismegistos ID: 738432

Source description

Support: Small fragment of white marble panel broken on all sides (w: 0.158 × h: 0.16 × d: 0.027).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.012-0.015.

Date: Plausibly ca. 350 BC (Rosamilia) (lettering, prosopography).

Findspot: Found before 1993 at Cyrene: agora.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by G. Paci in 1993 at Shahat: in the Storeroom of the Italian missions. Seen by E. Rosamilia en 2012at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Paci in Marengo – Paci 1998, pp. 374-377 n. 1 (ph.; dr.), whence SEG, 48.2051; IGCyr 088100 ; Rosamilia 2023, p. 100 (prosopography), pp. 164-167 (content, date), pp. 294-295, number 35 (text).

For general bibliography about the accounts of damiergoi, see IGCyr0114002.

Text

Interpretive

[Θεοί]
[Δαμιεργέντων c. 6 - 8]
[c. 10]ΠΙ[c. 4]
[c. 9]ευς, τ[ῶ Ἀπ-]
5[όλλωνος ἱ]α̣ριτεύον[τος]
[Θευχρήσ?]τω Πολυτίμ̣[ω].
[Καρπὸς ἐτ]ιμάθη· : κρι[θαὶ]
[ἀν c. 3]· [σπυ]ροὶ : ἀν 𐅝 · ὄ̣[σπρια]
[ἀν c. 4]· [στ]αφὶς ἀν [c. 3 σῦκα]
10[c. 4]· [σταφυλὰ] ψυ[θία ἔνδο-]
[ς τᾶς προ]κ[λησίας ἀν c. 4]:
[------]

Diplomatic

[....]
[............c. 6 - 8]
[++++++++++]ΠΙ[++++]
[+++++++++]ΕΥΣΤ[...-]
5[........].ΡΙΤΕΥΟΝ[...]
[.......]ΤΩΠΟΛΥΤΙ.[.]
[........]ΙΜΑΘΗ : ΚΡΙ[...]
[..+++...]ΡΟΙ : ΑΝ 𐅝 .[.....]
[..++++..]ΑΦΙΣΑΝ[+++....]
10[++++.......]ΨΥ[.......-]
[.......]Κ[........++++]:
[------]

Apparatus

1: [Θεοί] Marengo – Paci 1998, IGCyr: [Θεοί· δαμιεργέντων] Rosamilia 2023 This display is as plausible as the one with 'Gods' on one head-line.
3: ΠΙ Marengo – Paci 1998, IGCyr: ΝΙ Rosamilia 2023
6: [Θευχρήσ?]τω Rosamilia 2023: [c. 8]τω Πολυτίμ̣[ω] marengo-paci1998 IGCyr
9: [c. 3 σῦκα] Rosamilia 2023: [c. 7] Marengo – Paci 1998, IGCyr

French translation

[Dieux. Etant démiurges Untel fils d'Untel, Untel fils d'Untel, Untel] fils de [---]ès, étant prêtre d'Apollon [Theukhres?]tos fils de Polytimos, [la récolte] a été estimée: orge, [la mesure, tel prix]; froment, la mesure, 2 drachmes; légumineuses, [la mesure, tel prix]; raisin sec, la mesure, [tel prix; raisin] hâtif, [sous] garantie, [la mesure], [---].

English translation

[Gods. Being damiergoi So-and-so son of So-and-so, So-and-so son of So-and-so, So-and-so] son of [---]es, being priest of Apollo [Theuchres?]tos son of Polytimos, [the crop] was estimated: barley, [per unit, so much]; wheat, per unit, 2 drachmas; pulse, [per unit, so much]; raisins, per unit, [so much; grapes], early, [under] guarantee, [per unit], [---].

Italian translation

[Dèi. Essendo damiurghi il tale figlio del tale, il tale figlio del tale, il tale] figlio di [---]es, essendo sacerdote di Apollo [Theuchres?]tos figlio di Polytimos, [il raccolto] è stato valutato: orzo, [a tanto]; frumento, a 2 dracme; legumi, [a tanto]; uva passa, [a tanto; uva], primaticcia, garantita, [a ---].

Arabic translation

[الآلهة. فترة كل من الداميرجوي فلان بن فلان وفلان بن فلان وفلان] بن[---] يس، كونه كاهنًا لأبوللو[ثيوخريس] توس بن بوليتيموس،[المحصول] تم تقديره كالتالي: الشعير، [للمقدار الواحد، قيمة ما]؛ القمح، للمقدار الواحد، 2 دراخما؛ البقوليات، [للمقدار الواحد ، قيمة ما]؛ الزبيب، للمقدار الواحد، [قيمة ما؛ العنب]، المبكر، [مباع] بعقد مسبق، [للمقدار الواحد]، [---].

Commentary

For the first edition of this corpus, the ending -τος had not seemed sufficient to restore the priest's name at l. 6. New arguments have been produced by Rosamilia 2023 for the priest Theuchrestos son of Polytimos, mentioned at IGCyr0148002 a.i.9. This is a plausible identification, which allows to be more precise about the date of this account.

At line 4 the ending -ευς belongs to the father's name of the third damiergos, which should have a nominative in -ης. The length of this name cannot be determined because the line breaks do not coincide with word breaks.

We follow for the second edition Rosamilia's restoration of 'figs' at line 9. However, his reading of a deteriorated nu at line 3 is neither confirmed by Paci's autopsy nor by the excellent photograph provided by the first editors; moreover, all instances of nu in this inscription (line 8) have the long hastae cut obliquely.

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