Support: Fragment of white marble pillar broken on top, below and in the middle (w: 0.17 × h: 0.16 × d: 0.04), bearing also IGCyr062800², IGCyr062820², IGCyr062830², IGCyr062840² and IGCyr062850²; IGCyr097600² is probably the upper part of the pillar; IGCyr097150² might also belong to the collection.

Layout: Inscribed on one side below IGCyr062800², with IGCyr062850² on the right side of the same fragment.

Letters: 0.01; slight serifs, close lettering, non-slanting sigma, calice-shaped upsilon, rho and phi with small loop.

Date: Between 139 and 132 BC (Rosamilia, who prefers this date to 124-116 BC) (reign).

Findspot: Found before 1956 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 84. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[---]et consacrer [---] sacrifier chaque année [et faire des voeux et [---] pour la santé et le salut du] roi et des reines [ainsi que de leurs enfants] aux jours [fixés] et faire des libations [---]; ériger aussi des stèles au sujet de [l'estimation de la récolte et choisir des intendants préposés aux?] terrains, chaque année, qui [veilleront aux dépenses touchant aux?] indemnités d'entretien que nous voterons en faveur des [---]et prendre sur cet argent les dépenses pour les autres [---] et faire en sorte que la cité aussi [---].

English translation

[---]and to dedicate [---] to sacrifice each year [and to make vows and [---] for the health and salvation of the] king and the queens [and also their children] at the [stated] dates and to make libations [---]; to erect also steles about [the assessment of the crops and to choose treasurers in charge of?] the fields, each year, who [will provide to the expenses concerning the?] allowances that we shall vote on behalf of [---] to spend from the money also for the other [---] and to see to it also that the city[---].

Italian translation

[---]e di consacrare [---] di fare sacrifici ogni anno [e fare voti e [---] per la salute e la salvezza del] re e delle regine [come pure dei loro figli] nei giorni [stabiliti] e di fare libagioni [---]; di erigere anche stele sulla [valutazione del raccolto e di scegliere tesorieri preposti ai?] campi, ogni anno, i quali [si occuperanno delle spese relative alle?] indennità di sostentamento che voteremo per [---] di spendere dalle risorse anche per gli altri [---] e di fare in modo che anche la città[---].

Commentary

This document was a decree of the Cyrenaeans organizing the royal cult (like IGCyr011100²) and the administration of fields that should be the 'royal fields' mentioned in the accounts of the damiergoi and later passed on to the Roman people. If so, IGCyr062820² and IGCyr062830² might be clues to an intervening state, when the Ptolemies left some part of the administration in the hands of the Cyrenaeans. The new insight brought by Rosamilia 2023, showing a relation with an official letter of Aratomenes (see IGCyr097600²), does not change that point.

The 'king and the queens' mentioned at l. 5 may only be Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II, Cleopatra II and III, whence the date in either period of their triple reign.

The τροφαί (l. 9) are allowances given to priests or other religious servants, like in the accounts of damiergoi.

As already pointed out in IGCyr, IGCyr097150² might belong to this text, but this cannot be pushed forward because we know it only from a photograph. Rosamilia 2023 is also pleased with the idea (see commentary there).

The inventory numbers show that at least some parts of the stone were already in the epigraphic collection at the time of the reorganization of the Cyrenaean antiquities after World War II care of Goodchild (from 1956 on) and before Fraser observed one of them. They were perhaps all found during the Italian period, like both fragments of IGCyr062830².

For the forms of infinitive ποίεσθαι and ἐλέν C. Dobias-Lalou now thinks that they have short vowels, whence the accentuation proposed in this edition.

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Images

Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr062810 Decree (with 062800 above)

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr062810 Decree

Fig. 3. Face of igcyr062810 Decree

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