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

Caption

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1113502
Trismegistos ID: 738649

Source description

Support: Stone ball from a series of twenty-three, some in limestone, others of sandstone, amongst which eleven carry letters; chipped (weight 3.3 kg; diameter 0.15).

Layout: Inscribed with one letter.

Letters: 0.05.

Date: Between 246 and end of second century BC (context).

Findspot: Found during the excavations (1973-1975) conducted by J. Lloyd at Berenike: in the area of Hellenistic city walls.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Benghazi Museum (Sidi Khrebish excavations), H398. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editors.

Bibliography

Reynolds 2010, pp. 226-228, whence SEG, 60.1832; IGCyr 111350 . Cf. Lloyd – Kenrick 2014, p. 138, whence SEG, 64.2013; Reynolds – Kenrick 2015, pp. 76-81, whence SEG, 65.2020.

Text

Apparatus

1: ζ´ Reynolds 2010; ν´ Reynolds 2010 this hesitation presumably depends partly on the orientation chosen for the reading

French translation

Sept (ou cinquante ?).

English translation

Seven (or fifty ?).

Italian translation

Sette (o cinquanta ?).

Commentary

See commentary at IGCyr1113002.

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Maps

Berenike

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