Support: White marble block, broken at right, on top and bottom (w: 0.25 × h: 0.155 × d: 0.22).

Layout: Inscribed on front face, each line in a different hand.

Letters: l. 2 0.02, l. 3 0.025, l. 4 0.02, l. 5 0.022, l. 6-7 0.015, l. 8 0.015; careful lettering, quite homogenous, large theta with central dot, nu with shorter righthand part, xi with vertical stroke, slanting mu and sigma.

Date: From ca 337 to ca 330 BC (Rosamilia) (prosopography).

Findspot: Probably found in 1926 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 521. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[------] Iasôn fils de Xouthos, Philothalès fils de Iasôn, Epigénès fils d'Epitimidas, Klètomakhos [fils d'Untel], Théokhrestos [fils d'Untel], Sthénôn [fils d'Untel], Tim[ônax fils de Hagis, fils d'Untel], [------].

English translation

[------] Iason son of Xouthos, Philothales son of Iason, Epigenes son of Epitimidas, Kletomachos [son of So-and-so], Theochrestos [son of So-and-so], Sthenon [son of So-and-so], Tim[onax son of Hagis, son of So-and-so], [------].

Italian translation

[------] Iason figlio di Xouthos, Philothales figlio di Iason, Epigenes figlio di Epitimidas, Kletomachos [figlio del tale], Theochrestos [figlio del tale], Sthenon [figlio del tale], Tim[onax figlio di Hagis, figlio del tale], [------].

Commentary

Published by Pugliese Carratelli from †Oliverio's papers without photograph. From other identified inscriptions, the sketchbook number seems to be that of year 1926, as pointed out in IGCyr. Moreover, Rosamilia 2023 points out that in the sketchbook this inscription is registered at the page preceding the copy of IGCyr096000², about which Pugliese Carratelli provided further information: in the Sanctuary of Apollo, in the Trajanic Baths. The findspot of this inscription is therefore certainly the Sanctuary and possibly the same building.

The lines were inscribed each at a time in a relatively short span of time. Two of them (ll. 2 and 3) are known as priests of Apollo for years about 335 BC. It may be inferred that the whole list was a list of eponymous priests, as briefly suggested by Laronde 1987, p. 67 and again by Dobias-Lalou 2016, pp. 250-251, n. 18.

Rosamilia 2023 added that the name at line 8 should be that of the eponymous priest of IGCyr011500², allowing to date more precisely this list, which should be the earliest one known to us and seems to register all priests, year after year.

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