<rs type="textType" cert="low">Sacred law</rs> (?) Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica Università di Bologna IGCyr051900 738328 igcyr051900 https://igcyr.unibo.it/igcyr051900

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On the left outer wall of the entrance door of a rock-cut chamber inside which IGCyr051800 is inscribed.

 Scratched graffito, whose condition has deteriorated since first recorded. Ferri recorded a rock-cut panel ( 0.83 1.00 ) and spoke of at least 32 lines, whereas his drawing shows 19 with gaps; one line amongst the others is written in larger characters and might not pertain to the same text (thus here presented as textpart b). 0.025 from Ferri, probably applying to textpart a; textpart b twice larger; slanting mu and sigma, calice-shaped upsilon, phi with large loop. Findspot. Perhaps mid-fourth to mid-third century B.C.

First copied by S. Ferri between 1919 and 1922 at Cyrene: Sanctuary of Budaraj.

J.M. Reynolds visited the spot and said the inscription was illegible.

Sophie Marini in 2008 could not find the inscription.

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Bibliography

, pp. 98-99, n. 2, fig. 14, 14a, whence SEG, 9.728 . Cf. , pp. 310-311 .

Text
τῶν ἀναθημάτων αμ σταφὶς διασ ιο ευλ oα σ
Νυμφῶν
αιλ ν τὸν λοιπὸν ο αλδ λκοω αλδ λι ν αλδ ιγ κα ευδο ο α λδααν · τὸ δ’ἀνάλωμα δε πα τ γυνὰ γπασα ολσ σ λλ δυσ τὰ δὲ ἱαρῆια οοε
Apparatus

διασ διὰ σ or τὸν λοιπὸν ν λοιιον κα υα γυνὰ γπ γυκχια τὰ δὲ ἱαρῆια ἁ δὲ ἱάρεια This line was not considered differing from textpart a neither by Ferri nor by the editors of SEG

a. des offrandes raisin sec

b. Des Nymphes

a. le reste la dépense femme les victimes

a. of the offerings raisin

b. Of the Nymphs

a. the rest the expense woman the victims

a. delle offerte uva passa

b. Delle Ninfe

a. il restante la spesa donna le vittime

Commentary

This inscription, already very lacunar in Ferri's times, has been interpreted by him in relation with the goddesses mentioned in IGCyr051800, the Nymphs in his mind, an identification now rejected by other scholars.

Two reasons lead us to consider textpart b apart from the other lines: besides the taller and probably later lettering, the spelling νυμφῶν is a form of koine, whereas the rest of the text seems to be spelled in the local dialect.

From the text very few words survive, just allowing to agree with Ferri in thinking of a decree or a sacred law, the latter being more plausible at such a place.

At a. 18, Ferri's drawing shows two vertical strokes that might pertain to an eta, thus ἱαρῆιον rather than Ferri's proposed ἱάρεια.