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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Tithe

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1246002
Trismegistos ID: 738795

Source description

Support: White marble panel, broken off at all sides but below (w: 0.155 × h: 0.115); at back, a band of anathyrosis (wide 0.045).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.032; slight serifs.

Date: Probably third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Presumably before 1938 at Cyrene, while excavating the Fountain of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 50. Seen in 1979 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not published before IGCyr 124600 .

Text

Interpretive

[---]Α̣ Ι̣Ω̣[---]
[---] δεκά[ταν ---]

1 α vel λ | ι vel τ | ω vel ξ

Diplomatic

[---]...[---]
[---]ΔΕΚΑ[...---]

1 α vel λ | ι vel τ | ω vel ξ

French translation

[---] dîme.

English translation

[---] tithe.

English translation

[---] decima.

Commentary

At line 1, the orientation of the serif of the third letter allows only for a Ξ or a Ω; so the most plausible reading of the segment seems to be either -αιω or -ατω.

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