Support: Rectangular block of limestone, re-used in a later building and partly hidden (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on the face, at least on one line near the lower edge; other lines may have been cut on the hidden part.

Letters: Dimensions of letters unknown; very careful letters, not deeply cut, closely to one another; no serifs; epsilon with unequal bars, nu probably symmetrical.

Date: Perhaps first half of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found by C. Parisi Presicce between 2000 and 2002 at Cyrene ➚: re-used in the Sanctuary of Apollo, in the so-called Agora of the Gods, just West of the Strategeion.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚, Sanctuary of Apollo.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Dîme [---?].

English translation

Tithe [---?].

French translation

Decima [---?].

Commentary

It is impossible to restore the ancient display only from the quick description of Parisi Presicce. However, the good photograph allows to suspect a large monumental dedication, either made of several blocks or later re-cut. The verb ἀνέθηκε/αν might remain subaudible, but at least a personal name as subject would have stood in the hidden (or lost?) part. The date proposed here seems a plausible guess.

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