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 Cyrene Museum 3004

Rectangular limestone block, broken off below and chipped on all edges and especially at right, with the face much damaged by strokes and even circular holes which might appear as circular letters on the images ( 0.315 0.13 0.175 ).

 Inscribed on the face in lines beginning all at the left edge. 0.018; regularly cut without serifs; dotted theta, small omicron, slanting sigma. Findspot. Last third of fourth century B.C.

Found before 1982 at Cyrene: exact findspot unrecorded.

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

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Text Πρῶρος Ἀρ μάχω Ἀμύντας ος Βαρθυβας Μελανι Πρόλοχος Ἰάσονος
Apparatus

Μελανι Μελάνιος or Μελανίππω

Prôros fils d'Ar, fils de makhos, Amyntas fils de , Barthybas fils de Mélani, Prolokhos fils d'Iasôn, .

Proros son of Ar, son of machos, Amyntas son of , Barthybas son of Melani, Prolochos son of Iason, .

Proros figlio di Ar, figlio di machos, Amyntas figlio di , Barthybas figlio di Melani, Prolochos figlio di Iason, .

Commentary

The present condition of the stone makes the reading extremely difficult. The lettering is very similar to that of the lists of military officers IGCyr014800 and IGCyr015100 and of some accounts of the damiergoi, all dated in the second half of the fourth century B.C. The name Barthybas, often considered Jewish, is certainly neither Jewish nor Greek, but probably Libyan, as it is known up to now only in Cyrenaican contexts (see , p. 20 commenting IRCyr C.131).

The personal name Prolochos is new for Cyrenaica, but not unknown in Greece. The father's name at line 4 might be either the common Melanippos or the shorter Melanis, hitherto unattested in the region, but perhaps preferable for reasons of space. In fact, we do not know how much of the right edge is lost.