Accounts of the damiergoi

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 153.

Support

Fragmentary white marble stele with cymatium, broken at left and below (0.14-; 0.205-;0.035; with moulding 0.65).

Layout

Inscribed on front face; l. 1-4 centred along vertical axis with vacat at both ends.

Letters

0.01-0.012; omicron with central dot.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second half of the fourth century B.C.

Findspot

Found at the latest in 1929 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : agora .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1932-1933 Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 92, n. 19 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.20; for general bibliography on the accounts of the damiergoi see IGCyr011400.

Text

[Θεοί]. [Δαμιε]ργέντων (vac. 5) [---] νος : Ζήνιος (vac. 3) [---] [: Ἀριστα?]νδρίδα Μνασάρ̣χω [τῶ Ἀπόλλωνος ἱαρι]τ̣εύοντος Ἰάσι[ος] 5 [......] . [Καρπὸς ἐτιμά]θη· κριθαὶ : Ζ : [σπυροὶ :] [c. 1 - 5 : ὄσπρια :] [c. 3 - 5 : κύμινον] [c. 1 - 2]: [κ]άρφη ἥμε[ρα :] [c. 1 - 3 : ἄγρια ..] [ἀχύρων ῥῖπο]ς : 𐅠 𐅝 : σ[ταφυλὰ ψυ-θία ἔνδος τᾶς προκλη]σίας̣ [: c. 13] - - - - - -

Apparatus

3 [Ἀριστα?]νδρίδα : Oliverio, 1932-1933 Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography [Ἀναξα?]νδρίδα

French translation

[Dieux. Etant] démiurges [un tel fils de] [---] n, Zènis [fils d'un tel], [Arista?]ndridas fils de Mnasarkhos, étant prêtre [d'Apollon] Iasis [fils d'un tel. La récolte ] a été estimée: orge, 1 drachme; [froment, tant]; [légumes, tant; cumin, tant]; foin cultivé [tant; sauvage, tant; paille, le filet], 6 drachmes; [raisin hâtif sous] garantie, [tant], [---] .

English translation

[Gods. Being] damiergoi [So-and-so son of] [---] n, Zenis [son of So-and-so], [Arista?]ndridas son of Mnasarchos, being priest [of Apollo] Iasis [son of So-and-so. The crops] was estimated: barley, 1 drachma; [wheat, so much]; [pulse, so much; cumin, so much]; cultivated hay [so much; wild, so much; straw, one net], 6 drachmas; [grapes: early, under] guarantee, [so much], [---] .

Italian translation

[Dèi. Essendo] damiurghi [il tale figlio di] [---] n, Zenis [figlio del tale], [Arista?]ndridas figlio di Mnasarchos, essendo sacerdote [di Apollo] Iasis [figlio del tale. Il raccolto] è stato valutato: orzo, 1 dracma; [grano, tanto]; [legumi, tanto; cumino, tanto]; fieno coltivato [tanto; selvatico, tanto; paglia, per rete], 6 dracme; [uva primaticcia] scelta, [tanto], [---] .

Arabic translation

[الآلهة. في فترة] الداميرجوي [فلان بن ---] ن و زينيس [بن فلان]، و[أريستا؟] ...ندريداس بن مناسارخوس وكاهن [أبولو] إياسيس [بن فلان، المحاصيل] تم تقديرها كالتالي: الشعير، 1 دراخما؛ [القمح، اقيمة ما]. [البقوليات قيمة ما؛ الكمون، قيمة ما]؛ التبن المزروع [قيمة ما؛ التبن البري، قيمة ما؛ القش (التاتج عن درس الحبوب)، الشبكة الواحدة]، 6 دراخما؛ [العنب: المبكر، تحت] الضمان (مباع بعقد مسبق)، [قيمة ما]، ...فراغ

Commentary

Line 2: for the first pair of names, 10 letters on the whole are lacking; lines 2-3, for Zenis' father's name and the lost part of [---]andridas, there is space for about 15 letters. Oliverio tentatively restored Anaxandridas, which is possible, but up to now unknown in Cyrenaica, whereas Aristandridas is attested twice in the very period of the present account (IGCyr010800, l. 76 and IGCyr084000, l. 91).

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