<rs type="textType">Tithe</rs> Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica Università di Bologna IGCyr071000 738357 igcyr071000 https://igcyr.unibo.it/igcyr071000

Creative Commons Attributions-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

All citation, reuse or distribution of this work must contain a link back to DOI: http://doi.org/10.6092/UNIBO/IGCYRGVCYR and the filename (IGCyr000000 or GVCyr000), as well as the year of consultation.

 Benghazi Museum inv. number unknown

White marble rectangular base, badly chipped off on the first line of inscription and below ( 1.01 0.21 0.89 ).

 Inscribed on the face; both lines begin near the left margin. 0.025; no serifs, sigma with slanting strokes, omicron slightly smaller than omega, dissymmetrical pi. Euesperides. Second half of fourth or first half of third century B.C.

Found in 1974 at Berenike: reused in Byzantine times under the Church.

Seen by Fr. Chamoux and A. Laronde in 1977.

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Marked-up according to the EpiDoc Guidelines version 8

Digital or digitized photographs Digitized other representations Arabic English French German Ancient Greek Transliterated Greek Modern Greek Hebrew Italian Latin Cyrenaica Libya Benghazi Transcription from previous editors (CDL). checked checked, updated and in case corrected checked, updated and in case corrected physDesc, history, and textClass lemma, text, apparatus, translation, commentary moved text-constituted-from to profileDesc/creation mailmerged from IGCYR catalogo unificato
Bibliography

, p. 233, n. 1 (ph.), whence SEG, 28.1541 ; , p. 394 (as unpublished), whence SEG, 38.1870 .

Text Εὐγένης Ἀρίμμαντος δεκάταν τῶι Ἀπόλλωνι
Apparatus

Εὐγένης ντος Εὔξενος Μντος

Eugenès fils d'Arimmas a consacré la dîme à Apollon.

Eugenes son of Arimmas dedicated the tithe to Apollo.

Eugenes figlio di Arimmas ha dedicato la decima ad Apollo.

Commentary

The letters missing at l. 1 have been erased when the stone was re-used. For the father's name, to judge from the photograph, we agree with Reynolds for a loss of 6 letters, so that Ἀρίμμας seems a good restoration. As to the first name, it is not easy to decide between the two different readings proposed. We only may suspect that Reynolds could spend more time to study the inscription than Laronde and Chamoux on their brief visit in 1976.

Reynolds dated the lettering to «perhaps third to second century B.C.»; however the photograph shows letters belonging to the «buona epoca» so often mentioned by Oliverio for the period across fourth and third century. Be the date Laronde's «fourth century» or somewhat later, the stone is probably earlier than the foundation of Berenike. It was found near the few vestiges of its first city-walls. So we may suspect that the stone was brought from Euesperides, re-used a first time in the city-defences of Berenike and later again in the Byzantine Church.