EpiDoc XML:
IGCyr1113602
Trismegistos ID:
738650
Source description
Support: Stone ball from a series of twenty-three, some in limestone, others of sandstone, amongst which eleven carry letters; nearly half lost (weight 1.6 kg; diameter 0.15).
Layout: Inscribed with one letter, perhaps incomplete.
Letters: Height unknown.
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), H397. Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from: Transcription from editors.
Bibliography
Reynolds 2010, pp. 226-228, whence SEG, 60.1832; IGCyr 111360 ➚. Cf. Lloyd – Kenrick 2014, p. 138, fig. 17, whence SEG, 64.2013; Reynolds – Kenrick 2015, pp. 76-81, fig. 2, whence SEG, 65.2020.
Text
Apparatus
1: ζ´ Reynolds 2010; ξ´ Reynolds 2010
French translation
Sept.
English translation
Seven.
Italian translation
Sette.
Commentary
See commentary at IGCyr1113002.
J.M. Reynolds thought that part of the letter might be lost whence her hesitating about the reading. The better photograph available in high definition in the electronic edition of the article published in 2015 induces to choose the first reading.
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Images
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Maps
Berenike
