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 Cyrene Museum 84

Fragment of white marble stele broken on top, below and in the middle ( 0.17 0.16 0.04 ), bearing also IGCyr062800, IGCyr062820, IGCyr062830, IGCyr062840 and IGCyr062850 .

 Inscribed on one side below IGCyr062800, with IGCyr062850 on the right side of the same fragment. 0.01; slight serifs, close lettering, non-slanting sigma, calice-shaped upsilon, rho and phi with small loop. Cyrene. 139-132 B.C. or 124-116 B.C.

Found before 1956 at Cyrene: exact findspot unrecorded.

 Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in

Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

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Bibliography

, pp. 101-104, n. 1, pl. XII, 1, whence SEG, 18.727 ; , n. I.A , whence SEG, 50.1639.A . Cf. , and , 2005.620 , whence SEG, 53.2028 .

Text σα τὰν προ ἱαρῶσαι το θῦσαι κατ᾽ ἐνιαυτὸν καὶ ποίεσθαι εὐχὰς 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 των ἀναλίσκεν καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἄλλοις καὶ ποίεσθαι ὅπως καὶ ἀπο
Apparatus

σα σσ

τὰν προ τὰν πιο

ἱαρῶσαι το ἱαρῶσαι τὸς ἀγρὸς καὶ ἱαρῶσαι τοὺς ἀγροὺς

καὶ ποίεσθαι καὶ ποιε̃σθαι καὶ εὐχὰς πο-

εὐχὰς ε̃σθαι

ποίεσθαι ποιε̃σθαι ποε̃σθαι

καρπῶ τιμάσιος τούτω

ἐλὲν δὲ καὶ ταμίας ἐπὶ τῶν ἀγρῶν ἐλε̄ν δὲ καὶ ταμίας ἐπὶ τῶν ἀγρῶν ἑλεῖν δὲ καὶ πέντε ἄνδρας ἐπὶ τῶν ἀγρῶν

ἐπιμελήσονται τῶν ἀναλωμάτων τῶν ἐπὶ τὰς τροφὰς ἐπιμελήσονται αὐτῶν κατὰ τὰς ἀποφάσιες

των ἀναλίσκεν χρημάτων ἀναλίσκειν

ποίεσθαι ὅπως καὶ ἀπο ποιε̃σθαι ὅπως καὶ ἀπο ποε̃σθαι ὅπως καὶ ἀπ

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 ; consacrer 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 dépenser aussi à propos des autres et faire en sorte que .

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 dedicate 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 also for the other and to see to it that .

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 dedicare 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 anche per gli altri e di fare in modo che anche .

Commentary

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 the administration in the hands of the Cyrenaeans.

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.

IGCyr097150 might belong to this text, but this cannot be pushed forward because we know it only from a photograph.

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 here.

For a possible additional fragment, see IGCyr097150. However, we preferred not to join them.