Support: Rectangular, nearly square, grey and white marble block (w: 0.625 × h: 0.55 × d: 0.59), with on top one hole (diameter 0.15, depth 0.13) at the center and four holes (diameter 0.07, depth 0.08) near each angle; the four angles are broken off.

Layout: Inscribed on front face.

Letters: 0.034 to 0.038; smaller omicron, slanting sigma.

Date: Third quarter of fourth century BC (lettering, prosopography).

Findspot: Found in 1925 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo: inside the Temple or Artemis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 at findspot. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2001 in front of the Temple or Artemis.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Hagèsandros fils de Kléanôr (scil. a consacré ce monument) comme dîme.

English translation

Hagesandros son of Kleanor (scil. dedicated this monument) as a tithe.

Italian translation

Hagesandros figlio di Kleanor (scil. ha dedicato questo monumento) come decima.

Commentary

At line 1, the restoration [Ἁγή]σανδρος is based on IGCyr010800², l. 80., in the lilst of nomophylakes on duty in 320. In fact, the father's name is restored there from this inscription. However, the lettering makes the identification very plausible.

The present dedication is clearly made by a distinguished man; both inscriptions seem to have been inscribed within a short span of time; both names have distinctive features of Cyrenaean onomastics and are rare enough to allow a connection between them.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr095900 Tithe

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