Accounts of the damiergoi
IGCyr014600
Trismegistos ID: 106088
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 53.
Support
Fragment of a white marble panel broken on all sides except at left (0.155; 0.15;0.04).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.01; carefully cut letters, with varying spaces.
Place of Origin
Date
Between 220 and 180 B.C. (lettering, reign)
Findspot
Found in 1933 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : reused in the modern village («demolizione della cosidetta Palazzina Radio», according to Oliverio), so probably from the agora .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum ; a small part was then lost (ll. 1-2).
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. 155, n. 43, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.44; Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 202 whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 50.1637; 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.
Text
Apparatus
7
Dobias-Lalou, 2000
Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography
σ͡μ(ιρεὺς) : Oliverio, 1932-1933
Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography
μ(ετρητής)
8
Dobias-Lalou, 2000
Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography
σ͡μ(ιρεύς) : Oliverio, 1932-1933
Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography
μ(ετρητής)
French translation
[---] le médimne, [tant]; autres légumes, le médimne, [tant]; cumin, le médimne, [tant]; amandes à coque tendre, le médimne, [tant]; à coque dure, le médimne, [tant]; huile, le smireus , [tant]; vin, le smireus , [tant]; figues, le talent, [tant]; [---] .
English translation
[---] , per medimnos, [so much]; other pulse, per medimnos, [so much]; cumin, per medimnos, [so much]; almonds with soft shells, per medimnos, [so much]; with hard shells, per medimnos, [so much]; oil, per smireus , [so much]; wine, per smireus , [so much]; figs, per talent, [so much]; [---] .
Italian translation
[---] , per medimno, [tanto]; altri legumi, per medimno, [tanto]; cumino, per medimno, [tanto]; mandorle a guscio tenero, per medimno, [tanto]; a guscio duro, per medimno, [tanto]; olio, per smireus , [tanto]; vino, per smireus , [tanto]; fichi, per talento, [tanto]; [---] .
Arabic translation
[---]، لكل ميديمنوس، [قيمة ما]؛ بقوليات آخرى، لكل ميديمنوس، [قيمة ما]؛ الكمون، لكل ميديمنوس، [قيمة ما]؛ اللوز ذوالقشور الهشة، لكل ميديمنوس، [قيمة ما]، اللوز ذوالقشور الصلبة، لكل ميديمنوس، [قيمة ما]؛ الزيت، لكل سميريوس، [قيمة ما]؛ النبيذ، لكل سميريوس، [قيمة ما]؛ التين، لكل تالنت، [قيمة ما]؛ [---].
Commentary
The different products being written each on a line, this account was presumably divided into two columns, one for each half-year. If so, we have here vestiges of the first one and the second is wholly restored on behalf of parallelism. Together with a similar lettering, this is a good reason which leads to place it in the same group as IGCyr014000, IGCyr014200 and IGCyr014300, although no price is preserved in this small fragment. Indeed 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 ) has now shown that the change from silver standard to bronze standard took place in Cyrenaica about 220 B.C. and 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 place this group before 180 B.C.
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