Decree of Cyrene
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Between 139 and 132 BC (Rosamilia, who prefers this date to 124-116 BC)
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], pp. 101-104, n. 1, pl. XII, 1, whence [...], 18.727; [...], n. I.A, whence [...], 50.1639.A; [...] 062810; [...], pp. 230-243, number 4, document III (text). Cf. [...], and [...], 2005.620, whence [...], 53.2028.

[...] [...]σα[...] [...] τὰν προ[...] [...] καὶ ἱαρῶσαι το[...] [...] θῦσαι κατ᾽ ἐνιαυτὸν καὶ εὐχὰς ποίεσθαι καὶ [...] ὑπὲρ τᾶς ὑγιείας καὶ σωτηρίας τῶ βασιλεῦς καὶ τᾶν βασιλισσᾶν καὶ τῶν τέκνων αὐτῶν ἐν ταῖς τεταγμέναις ἁμέραις καὶ ποίεσθαι σπονδὰς [...] ἀνθέμεν δὲ καὶ στάλας περὶ καρπῶ τιμάσιος, ἐλὲν δὲ καὶ ταμίας ἐπὶ τῶν ἀγρῶν κατ᾽ ἐνιαυτόν, οἵτινες ἐπιμελήσονται τῶν ἀναλωμάτων τῶν ἐπὶ τὰς τροφὰς ἅς κα ψαφιξώμεθα τοῖς [...]τῶν χρημάτων ἀναλίσκεν καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἄλλοις [...] καὶ πόεσθαι ὅπως καὶ ἁ πόλις [...] [...]

[...]σα[...][^a1]

[^a1: [...]σα[...] | [...]σσ[...]]

τὰν προ[...][^a2]

[^a2: τὰν προ[...] | τὰν πιο[...]]

[...] καὶ[^a3] ἱαρῶσαι το[...][^a4]

[^a3: [...] καὶ | [...] καὶ | [...][...] | [...] καὶ]

[^a4: ἱαρῶσαι το[...] | ἱαρῶσαι τὸς ἀγρὸς [...] | [...] καὶ ἱαρῶσαι τοὺς ἀγροὺς [...]]

καὶ εὐχὰς ποίεσθαι[^a5]

[^a5: καὶ εὐχὰς ποίεσθαι | [...] [...] | καὶ ποίεσθαι εὐχὰς | καὶ ποιε̃σθαι | καὶ εὐχὰς ποε̃σθαι]

ποίεσθαι[^a6]

[^a6: ποίεσθαι | ποιε̃σθαι | ποε̃σθαι]

καρπῶ τιμάσιος[^a7]

[^a7: καρπῶ τιμάσιος | [...] | τούτω]

ἐλὲν δὲ καὶ ταμίας ἐπὶ τῶν ἀγρῶν[^a8]

[^a8: ἐλὲν δὲ καὶ ταμίας ἐπὶ τῶν ἀγρῶν | ἑλεῖν δὲ καὶ πέντε ἄνδρας ἐπὶ τῶν ἀγρῶν | ἐλε̄ν δὲ καὶ ταμίας ἐπὶ τῶν ἀγρῶν | [...] ἐπὶ τῶν ἀγρῶν]

ἐπιμελήσονται τῶν ἀναλωμάτων τῶν ἐπὶ τὰς τροφὰς[^a9]

[^a9: ἐπιμελήσονται τῶν ἀναλωμάτων τῶν ἐπὶ τὰς τροφὰς | ἐπιμελήσονται αὐτῶν [...] κατὰ τὰς ἀποφάσιες]

[...] τῶν χρημάτων ἀναλίσκεν[^a10]

[^a10: [...] τῶν χρημάτων ἀναλίσκεν | [...]των ἀναλίσκεν | [...] χρημάτων ἀναλίσκειν]

πόεσθαι ὅπως καὶ ἁ πόλις [...][^a11]

[^a11: πόεσθαι ὅπως καὶ ἁ πόλις [...] | ποίεσθαι ὅπως καὶ ἀπο[...] | ποιε̃σθαι ὅπως καὶ ἀπο[...] | ποε̃σθαι ὅπως καὶ ἀπ[...]]

[...]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 [...].

[...]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[...].

[...]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[...].

This document was a decree of the Cyrenaeans organizing the royal cult (like IGCyr011100) 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, IGCyr062820 and IGCyr062830 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 [...], showing a relation with an official letter of Aratomenes (see IGCyr097600), 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 [...], IGCyr097150 might belong to this text, but this cannot be pushed forward because we know it only from a photograph. [...] 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 IGCyr062830.

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.