List of foreigners
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: End of fourth or beginning of third century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], 115 (ph.); [...] 097300. Cf. [...] vol. II, pp. 826-827, footnote 221; [...], p. 396; [...], p. 28 and footnote 145.

[...] [...] Μεγαρεύς [...] Μεγαρεύς [...] κηνός [...] ανος [...] ος [...] Ἀπολλωνιεύς [...]νος Ῥόδιος [...] Θηβαῖος [...] νος [...] Ῥόδιος [...] Συρακόσιος [...]

[...]Ἱλιεύς [...]Γαργαρεύς [...]Κυζικηνός[^a1] [...]Τραλλιανός[^1] [...]νιεύς [...]ιος [...]Συρακόσιος[^2]

[^a1: [...]Κυζικηνός | [...]Λαμψακηνός | Λαμψακηνός]

[^1: tentatively suggested by Pugliese Carratelli]

[^2: perhaps written by a third hand]

[...], Untel mégarien Untel mégarien, Untel de [...]que, Untel de telle cité, (5) Untel de telle cité, Untel d'Apollonia, [...]nos (ou Untel fils de [...]n) rhodien, Untel thébain, Untel de telle cité, (10) Untel rhodien, Untel syracusain, [...].

[...], So-and-so a Megarian So-and-so a Megarian, So-and-so from [...]kos, So-and-so from such city, (5) So-and-so from such city, So-and-so from Apollonia, [...]nos (or So-and-so son of [...]n) a Rhodian, So-and-so a Theban, So-and-so from such city, (10) So-and-so a Rhodian, So-and-so a Syracusan, [...].

[...], il tale da Megara, il tale da Megara, il tale da [...]kos, il tale dalla tal città, (5) il tale dalla tal città, il tale da Apollonia, [...]nos (o il tale figlio di [...]n) da Rodi, il tale da Tebe, il tale dalla tal città, (10) il tale da Rodi, il tale da Siracusa, [...].

Pugliese Carratelli spoke of a limestone panel and then of letters inscribed before firing («incisi prima della cottura»), as if it was a terracotta. However the observation of the stone confirms that it is a limestone block, reddish from the soil.

At line 1, the reading Ἰλιεύς is not possible; the same ending -γαρεύς occurs at line 2 and the most evident restoration would be Μεγαρεύς, although Γαργαρεύς is not impossible.

At line 3, [...] vol. II, pp. 826-827, footnote 221 Fraser thought that he could read on his squeeze two letters more at the beginning of the line; however, as Dobias-Lalou saw the stone in 1979 exactly in the status shown by the photograph in [...], 115 this seems impossible, unless Fraser saw in the Museum a supplementary fragment that he did not mention. It is impossible to choose between the two restorations proposed by Pugliese Carratelli. Both Kyzikos and Lampsakos are located in the North-West of Asia Minor and their ethnics share the regional suffix -ηνός.

At line 6, if we really have the ethnic of a city named Apollonia, it is impossible to known which one.

At line 9, we keep Pugliese Carratelli's reading, although the traces of letters are very faint and would be, if ever, written by a second hand. The reading is very uncertain.

We have no other instance of individual foreigners mentioned in a list in any inscription from Cyrenaica. The topic is unknown, although Fraser ([...], vol. II, p. 582) suggested that they were mercenaries. This hypothesis seems 'probable' to [...], whereas [...], p. 396 was less convinced. One argument in favour of this hypothesis is a possible relation with the troubled period preceding Magas' arrival at Cyrene and his first years of power, i.e. between ca. 300 and 280.