Accounts of the damiergoi
IGCyr012900
Trismegistos ID: 738216
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 87.
Support
Upper left angle of a white marble stele with cymatium.
Layout
Inscribed under cymatium (0.135; 0.1;0.035 dimensions of the inscribed panel).
Letters
0.01; nu, mu and omega rather ancient in shape.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps, first half of the fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou on May 5th, 1976 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum ; a small fragment now lost at bottom.
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. 95, n. 26, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.27; for general bibliography on the accounts of the damiergoi see IGCyr011400.
Text
Apparatus
1 Δάμιο[ς] [c. 22 - 24] : Oliverio, 1932-1933
Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography
Δαμιο[ργοὶ]
3 [δαμιεργῶν?] : Oliverio, 1932-1933
Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography
[---]
6
(the initial sigma is now lost)
7
(the initial psi and upsilon are now lost)
French translation
Dieux. Damis [fils d'un tel], [.. ? ..] Theukhrestos [.. ? ..] , [un tel fils de] Melanippos [démiurges; prêtre] d'Apollon [un tel fils d'un tel]. La récolte [a été estimée]: [---] raisin [hâtif sous garantie, tant]; hâtif [hors garantie, tant; noir sous garantie, tant; noir hors garantie, tant;] [---] .
English translation
Gods. Damis [son of So-and-so], [.. ? ..] Theuchrestos [.. ? ..] , [So-and-so son of] Melanippos [damiergoi; priest] of Apollo [So-and-so son of So-and-so]. The crops [were estimated]: [---] grapes: [early under guarantee, so much]; early [without guarantee, so much; black under guarantee, so much; black without guarantee, so much;] [---] .
Italian translation
Dèi. Damis [figlio del tale], [.. ? ..] Theuchrestos [.. ? ..] , [il tale figlio di] Melanippos [damiurghi; sacerdote] di Apollo [il tale figlio del tale]. Il raccolto [è stato valutato]: [---] uva: [primaticcia scelta, tanto]; primaticcia [non scelta, tanto; nera scelta, tanto; nera non scelta, tanto;] [---] .
Arabic translation
الآلهة. داميس [بن فلان]، [..؟ ..] ثيوخريستوس [..؟ ..]، [فلان بن] ميلانيبوس [الداميرجوي. كاهن] أبولو [فلان بن فلان]. المحاصيل [قُدرت كاتالي]: [---] العنب: [المبكر(مباع بعقد مسبق)، قيمة ما]. المبكر [(غيرمباع بعقد مسبق)، قيمة ما. الأسود (مُباع بعقد مسبق)، قيمة ما؛ أسود (غيرمباع بعقد مسبق) ، قيمة ما؛ ---].
Commentary
The length of the lines is inferred from the restitution on line 6, on the basis of the repetitive lists of products.
At line 1 there is no reason to admit with Oliverio a form δαμιοργοί which would not fit the dialect. We should rather have the name of the first damiergos at the genitive case of Damis. Another Damis is mentioned as the first damiergos in IGCyr013000, but both lack their father's names, which were probably different, as we don't know examples of one and the same damiergos in charge in two different years.
At lines 1-3, the list of three damiergoi begins with Damis, whose father is unknown, and ends with Melanippos, the father of the unknown third damiergos . Between them, we cannot know whether Theukhrestos is the own name or the father's name of the second damiergos .
Both the space available and the genitive of the first damiergos induce to admit a mixed syntax, with the damiergoi at the genitive and the priest at the nominative.
At line 5, the products, now lost, that were registered before grapes are fewer than in other accounts.
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