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
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 Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 137, n. 37, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.38; Rosamilia, 2016 Rosamilia, E., 2016, Numismatica e documentazione epigrafica: i piedi monetali e l'introduzione del "bronze standard" a Cirene, in M. Asolati, Le monete di Cirene e della Cirenaica nel Mediterraneo: problemi e prospettive. Atti del V Congresso Internazionale di Numismatica e di Storia Monetaria. Padova, 17-19 marzo 2016, Numismatica Patavina13, 83-100 - see in bibliography ; Rosamilia, 2017 Rosamilia, E., 2017, The introduction of Bronze Standard in Cyrenaica: Evidence from the Damiergoi Accounts, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE), 201, 139-154 - see in bibliography . For general bibliography on the accounts of the damiergoi see IGCyr011400.
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 Rosamilia, E., 2016, Numismatica e documentazione epigrafica: i piedi monetali e l'introduzione del "bronze standard" a Cirene, in M. Asolati, Le monete di Cirene e della Cirenaica nel Mediterraneo: problemi e prospettive. Atti del V Congresso Internazionale di Numismatica e di Storia Monetaria. Padova, 17-19 marzo 2016, Numismatica Patavina13, 83-100 - see in bibliography ) 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 Rosamilia, E., 2017, The introduction of Bronze Standard in Cyrenaica: Evidence from the Damiergoi Accounts, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (ZPE), 201, 139-154 - see in bibliography ) 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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