Support
Within a rock-cut chamber (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed in a sunk rectangular panel. There are holes at the edges of the rectangle.
Letters
Irregular lettering, height unknown; zeta with vertical stroke, dotted theta, some sigmas slightly slanting, widely open omega.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Possibly Hellenistic, but too rough to date with any precision. (lettering)
Findspot
First copied by J.-R. Pacho in 1825 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Budaraj .
Later recorded Location
Copied by S. Ferri between 1919 and 1922 in situ.
Later recorded Location
Observed by J.M. Reynolds in situ.
Last recorded Location
Seen by S. Marini in 2008 in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5183, from Pacho, 1827 Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography , pl. LXVI.4; Ferri, 1922 Ferri, S., 1922, Il santuario di Budrasc, Notiziario Archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie3, 95-99, fig. 13-20 - see in bibliography , n. 1 and fig. 13, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.727.
Cf. Ferri, 1923 Ferri, S., 1923, Contributi di Cirene alla storia della religione greca, Roma - see in bibliography , pp. 10-11; Husson, 1983 Husson, G., 1983, Un sens méconnu de θυρίς et de fenestra, Journal of Juristic Papyrology (JJP)19, 155-162 - see in bibliography , p. 162, footnote 41, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 33.1614; Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 428-429; Hellmann, 1992 Hellmann, M.-Chr., 1992, Recherches sur le vocabulaire de l'architecture grecque d'après les inscriptions de Délos, Bibliothèques de l'École française d'Athènes et de Rome (BEFAR), série Athènes , Athens - see in bibliography , p. 166; Marini, 2013 Marini, S., 2013, Grecs et Romains face aux populations libyennes, des origines à la fin du paganisme, 1-2, PhD dissertation Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne - see in bibliography , pp. 310-311, pl. XXIX-XXX.
1 Ο[.] ΡΑ (Reynolds' reading) : Pacho, 1827
Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography
ΒΑΛΑΔ : Ferri, 1922
Ferri, S., 1922, Il santuario di Budrasc, Notiziario Archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie3, 95-99, fig. 13-20 - see in bibliography
(Ferri does not mention this line)
2 θ̣υρίδας (Reynolds' reading) : CIG
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography
ὀφρίδας
3-4 ἀ̣ν|έθηκε (Reynolds' reading) : Ferri, 1922
Ferri, S., 1922, Il santuario di Budrasc, Notiziario Archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie3, 95-99, fig. 13-20 - see in bibliography
, Pacho, 1827
Pacho, J.-R., 1827, Relation d'un voyage dans la Marmarique, la Cyrénaïque et les oasis d'Audjelah et de Maradeh, pendant les années 1824 et 1825, Paris - see in bibliography
ἀνέθηκε (the whole word on line 4)
[---] Zôpyros a consacré les niches aux déesses.
[---] Zopyros dedicated the niches to the goddesses.
[---] Zopyros ha dedicato le nicchie alle dee.
Ferri regarded the text as contemporary, or nearly so, with the construction of the chamber and stated that it had been subsequently covered with stucco several times.
It seems possible that several texts have been cut at different times in this panel.
For θυρίς meaning 'niche', already suspected by Ferri, see Husson, 1983 Husson, G., 1983, Un sens méconnu de θυρίς et de fenestra, Journal of Juristic Papyrology (JJP)19, 155-162 - see in bibliography , p. 162, footnote 41, who gives papyrological and epigraphical parallels and also Hellmann, 1992 Hellmann, M.-Chr., 1992, Recherches sur le vocabulaire de l'architecture grecque d'après les inscriptions de Délos, Bibliothèques de l'École française d'Athènes et de Rome (BEFAR), série Athènes , Athens - see in bibliography , p. 166.
At l. 5 Ferri thought that the goddesses were the Nymphs, on behalf of his interpretation of IGCyr051900, which is far from clear. But Laronde, followed by Marini, argues that the terracottas and sculptures found in the cave testify that they were mother-goddesses favouring fertility.
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