Perhaps honours
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Probably between 250 and 220 BC (Rosamilia)
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Not published before [...] 130600, whence [...], 67.1483; [...], p. 28.

[...]ς [...] [...] [...]νου Θεσσαλός ἡγεμὼν ἐπ᾿ ἀνδρῶν

ἐπ᾿ἀνδρῶν[^a1]

[^a1: ἐπ᾿ἀνδρῶν | ἐπ᾿ἀρῶν]

[...] [...]fils de [...]nos, thessalien, commandant de garnison.

[...] [...]son of [...]nos, Thessalian, commander of garrison.

[...] [...]figlio di [...]nos, tessalo, capo di presidio.

This inscription has no parallel and raises different questions. As noticed in the first edition, the use of the koine is a clue for an international context, perhaps in relation with the Ptolemaic domination. The layout confirms that Θεσσαλός is here used with its original value of an ethnic and not as a personal name. The latter would have stood at line 3. It is not clear whether line 2 was inscribed or left blank.

Dobias-Lalou's reading of line 5 in the first edition was duly eliminated by Rosamilia who was able to identify the title ἡγεμὼν ἐπ᾿ἀνδρῶν, mainly attested at Cyprus, often associated with φρούραρχος and used for majors commanding a garrison (see [...], pp. 51-54. As shown by Rosamilia, this is the first clear clue for the presence of a Lagid garrison at Cyrene after 250. However, in IGCyr097400 some military Lagid officers of low rank are also attested.