IGCyr2 | GVCyr2
Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Name

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1066202
Trismegistos ID: 738591

Source description

Support: Limestone block (w: 0.61 × h: 0.55 × d: 0.41).

Layout: Inscribed or graffito.

Letters: 0.115.

Date: Admittedly Hellenistic (monument type).

Findspot: Found before 1960 at Cyrene: on the Acropolis, near the defensive wall (in its original location or in re-use?).

Place of origin: Cyrene.

Last recorded location: Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 at findspot on the Acropolis. Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Morelli in SECir, 294 (no image); Fraser – Matthews 1987, p. 294; IGCyr 106620 .

Text

Interpretive

Λ̣ῦσις

Diplomatic

.ΥΣΙΣ

Apparatus

1: Λ̣ῦσις Fraser – Matthews 1987: Δύσις SECir

French translation

Lysis.

English translation

Lysis.

Italian translation

Lysis.

Commentary

This stone is known only through Morelli's transcription. His reading gives no sense, so that Fraser-Matthews (so also Marengo 1991, p. 466) convincingly suspected that a delta had been read for a lambda. We lack any information about the type of execution and the lettering.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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