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Probably list of military officers

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1035002
Trismegistos ID: 738558

Source description

Support: Fragmentary white marble panel, broken on top and below (w: 0.32 × h: 0.195 × d: 0.075).

Layout: Inscribed on the whole width of front face, which is much chipped off.

Letters: 0.016; careful and regular lettering; no serifs, alpha with low bar, dotted theta, slanting mu and sigma, dissymetrical nu, slightly smaller omicron and omega, the latter widely open, oval loop of phi.

Date: Between 370 and 365 ca. BC (Rosamilia) (lettering, prosopography).

Findspot: Probably found in 1937 at Cyrene: in the Sanctuary of Apollo (see commentary).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 482. Seen in 1977 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Morelli in SECir, 236 (no image); IGCyr 103500 .

Cf. Dobias-Lalou 2016, p. 246; Rosamilia 2023, p. 340, number 71 (text).

Text

Interpretive

[------]
[Ν]ικόδαμος Πρατ̣ο̣[μήδευς?]
Ἀλεξικλῆς Εὐφράνορος̣
Ὑπερτέλης Εὐκάρτευς
Πρατομήδης Καλλίππω
5Ἀμμώνιος Θευχρήσ[τω]
Μναστοκλῆ̣ς̣ Στρα̣τ̣[.. ? ..]
Πολ̣λί̣δας Κλ[έωνος]
Ἐτέαρχος [.. ? ..]
[------]

Diplomatic

[------]
[.]ΙΚΟΔΑΜΟΣΠΡΑ..[......]
ΑΛΕΞΙΚΛΗΣΕΥΦΡΑΝΟΡΟ.
ΥΠΕΡΤΕΛΗΣΕΥΚΑΡΤΕΥΣ
ΠΡΑΤΟΜΗΔΗΣΚΑΛΛΙΠΠΩ
5ΑΜΜΩΝΙΟΣΘΕΥΧΡΗΣ[..]
ΜΝΑΣΤΟΚΛ..ΣΤΡ..[.. ? ..]
ΠΟ.Λ.ΔΑΣΚΛ[.....]
ΕΤΕΑΡΧΟΣ[.. ? ..]
[------]

Apparatus

1: Πρατ̣ο̣[μήδευς?] IGCyr: Πρα[τ]ο̣[---] SECir, Rosamilia 2023
3: Ὑπερτέλης: Ὑπερ̣τ̣έ̣λης SECir
4: Πρατομήδης: Πρατο̣μ̣ήδης SECir
6: Στρα̣τ̣[.. ? ..] IGCyr: Στο[---] SECir, Rosamilia 2023
7: Κλ[έωνος]: Κλ̣έ[ωνος] SECir

French translation

[---] Nikodamos fils de Prato[médès?], Alexiklès fils d'Euphranôr, Hypertélès fils d'Eukartès, Pratomédès fils de Kallippos, Ammônios fils de Theukhrestos, Mnastoklès fils de Strat[---], Pollidas fils de Kléôn, Etearkhos [fils d'Untel], [---].

English translation

[---] Nikodamos son of Prato[medes?], Alexikles son of Euphranor, Hyperteles son of Eukartes, Pratomedes son of Kallippos, Ammonios son of Theuchrestos, Mnastokles son of Strat[---], Pollidas son of Kleon, Etearchos [son of So-and-so], [---].

Italian translation

[---] Nikodamos figlio di Prato[medes?], Alexikles figlio di Euphranor, Hyperteles figlio di Eukartes, Pratomedes figlio di Kallippos, Ammonios figlio di Theuchrestos, Mnastokles figlio di Strat[---], Pollidas figlio di Kleon, Etearchos [figlio del tale], [---].

Commentary

The provenance of this fragment was given by Pugliese Carratelli from Oliverio's papers similarly to that of IGCyr1002002 and is plausibly identified as some point in Apollo's sanctuary (see also Rosamilia 2023, p. 351, footnote 2).

The lettering allows to date this list with confidence more or less in the middle of the fourth century. A more precise date is provided by Rosamilia on prosopographical grounds. This list is very similar to lists of military officers like for instance IGCyr0148002. A Kallippos son of Pratomedes is mentioned there (a.ii.32) as commander of a company of four-horse chariots, whereas a Kleon son of Pollidas is mentioned as a damiergos in IGCyr0124002 and also without context in IGCyr1073002. All three inscriptions may be dated around 335/330 BC. So the fathers of the two men might be mentioned here at lines 4 and 7.

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