Accounts of the damiergoi

IGCyr014000

Trismegistos ID: 106082

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 493.

Support

Upper left angle of a white marble panel (0.06; 0.085;0.03).

Layout

Inscribed on the face, of which only height (0.055) is preserved; the letters of line 1 are largely spaced, in order to fill the whole width with a short word.

Letters

0.007; slight serifs; flattened delta, kappa with oblique bars not detached near the hasta, rho with large loop.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Between 220 and 180 B.C. (lettering, reign)

Findspot

Found before 1933 at Cyrene : agora .

Last recorded Location

Seen in 1977 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1932-1933 , p. 137, n. 37, whence SEG , 9.38; Rosamilia, 2016 ; Rosamilia, 2017 . For general bibliography on the accounts of the damiergoi see IGCyr011400.

Text

Θ̣[εοί]. Ἱερεὺ[ς ---] . Δα[μιεργέντων] Κλ[---]  5Φ̣[ι]λ̣[---]  - - - - - -

Apparatus

French translation

Dieux. Prêtre  [---]  [fils de]  [---] , étant démiurges Kl [---]  [fils de]  [---] , Ph [---]  [fils de]  [---] ,  [---]  [fils de]  [---] .

English translation

Gods. Priest  [---]  [son of]  [---] , being damiergoi Kl [---]  [son of] [---] , Ph [---]  [son of]  [---] ,  [---]  [son of]  [---] .

Italian translation

Dèi. Sacerdote  [---]  [figlio di]  [---] , essendo damiurghi Kl [---]  [figlio di]  [---] , Ph [---]  [figlio di]  [---] ,  [---]  [figlio di]  [---] .

Arabic translation

الآلهة. الكاهن [--- بن ---]، والداميرجوي كل [--- بن ---] وف [--- بن ---] و[--- بن ---].

Commentary

This account is the only one where the word 'priest' has the form of koine instead of the usual dialectal form. Combined with the lettering, it shows that the inscription is rather late amongst the whole bulk of such accounts. However, after E. Rosamilia ( Rosamilia, 2016 ) had shown that the change from silver standard to bronze standard took place in Cyrenaica about 220 B.C., he was also able ( Rosamilia, 2017 ) to define some groups amongst the accounts previously placed in the second century B.C. For this one only the lettering helped him to place it together with IGCyr014200, IGCyr014300 and IGCyr014600, for which the date should be before 180 B.C.

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