Accounts of the damiergoi

IGCyr009420

Trismegistos ID: 738197

Source Description

Support

Fragmentary marble panel (-; 0.10;0.025).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.012.

Place of Origin

Cyrene : presumably from the agora .

Date

Fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found on March 15th, 1911 at Cyrene : acropolis, central room of Apse building , 4.5 m. below surface.

Present Location

Not found.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Robinson, 1913 , p. 162, n. 12, and Marengo, 1991 , pp. 490-491, footnote 1, whence SEG , 41.1690; for general bibliography on accounts of damiergoi see at IGCyr011400.

Text

- - - - - - [---] ς : τῶ Ἀ̣[πόλ-λωνο]ς : ἱαρ[ιτεύοντος]· [Καρπός] ἐ̣τιμ[άθη]· [κριθαὶ ἀν]  [c. 1 - 2 σ]π̣υρ[οὶ ἀν]  [c. 1 - 2] - - - - - -

Apparatus

1 Robinson, 1913  [---] ς : τῶ Δ[---] 

3 ἐ̣τιμ[άθη] : Robinson, 1913  ἐτίμ[ησεν]

4 [σ]π̣υρ[οὶ] : Robinson, 1913  Πυρ[---] 

French translation

 [---] , étant prêtre d'Apollon [untel]. [La récolte] a été estimée: [orge, la mesure, tant]; [fro]ment, [la mesure, tant];  [---] .

English translation

 [---] , [So-and-so] being priest of Apollo. [The crops] have been estimated: [barley, per unit, so much]; [whe]at, per unit, [so much];  [---] .

Italian translation

 [---] , essendo sacerdote di Apollo [il tale]. [Il raccolto] è stato valutato: [orzo, a tanto]; [gra]no, [a tanto];  [---] .

Arabic translation

[---] في فترة [فلان] كاهن أبوللو، [المحاصيل] تم تقديرها كالتالي: [الشعير، قيمة ما للمقدارالواحد]؛ [القم]ح، [قيمة ما] للمقدار الواحد؛ [---]

Commentary

Among the accounts of damiergoi (see IGCyr011400), this one was the very first to be found. Therefore, Robinson was not able to interpret this tiny fragment. Marengo rightly stressed the word-parts of ll. 3 and 4 and the characteristical punctuation.

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