Support: Fragment of a marble block, broken off on all sides (except probably at right) (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on front face; the preserved fragment keeps probably the end of lines.

Letters: Height unknown; slight serifs, alpha with low bar, small theta and omicron, pi with proeminent upper bar, rho with small loop, non-slanting sigma.

Date: Second half of second century BC, probably between 139 and 132 BC (Rosamilia, see commentary) (lettering, internal context).

Findspot: Found before 1939 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960. Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible (cf. commentaire).

English translation

Not usefully translatable (see commentary).

Italian translation

Intraducibile (cf. commento).

Arabic translation

لا يمكن ترجمته بشكل جيد.

Commentary

This fragment is only known from a photograph in the Cyrene archives. From the lettering and textual content, we might guess that it is a part of IGCyr062810², but this cannot be pushed because we have no information about dimensions either of the stone or of the letters. Rosamilia 2023 hesitantly prints this text below IGCyr062810², separated from it by an unknown number of lost lines.

Pugliese Carratelli thought the fragment to be complete at right. For IGCyr, we thought that this point was not clear and admitted possible gaps at end-lines. Following Rosamilia 2023, we now give up this possibility. This allows to identify the word 'priest' at the end of line 5.

The word ἀγρός 'field' is mentionned twice (l. 2 and 4) in this small fragment along with ἔκδοσις 'sale' (l. 5). Because of the word 'priest' (ἱαρεύς at l. 5 (not necessarily at the accusative singular as Rosamilia suggests, the accusative or genitive pural being also possible). The whole might deal with some sacred land like at IGCyr062810².

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