Support
On the left outer wall of the entrance door of a rock-cut chamber inside which IGCyr051800 is inscribed.
Layout
Scratched graffito, whose condition has deteriorated since first recorded. Ferri recorded a rock-cut panel (0.83; 1.00;) and spoke of at least 32 lines, whereas his drawing shows 19 with gaps; one line amongst the others is written in larger characters and might not pertain to the same text (thus here presented as textpart b).
Letters
0.025 from Ferri, probably applying to textpart a; textpart b twice larger; slanting mu and sigma, calice-shaped upsilon, phi with large loop.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps mid-fourth to mid-third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
First copied by S. Ferri between 1919 and 1922 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Budaraj .
Last recorded Location
J.M. Reynolds visited the spot and said the inscription was illegible.
Present Location
Sophie Marini in 2008 could not find the inscription.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor (CDL).
Ferri, 1922 Ferri, S., 1922, Il santuario di Budrasc, Notiziario Archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie3, 95-99, fig. 13-20 - see in bibliography , pp. 98-99, n. 2, fig. 14, 14a, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.728. Cf. 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.
a.2 ΔΙΑΣ : SEG
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography
διὰ σ[---]
a.5a
- - - - - - : (or)
(vac.)
a.7 [τὸ]ν λοιπ̣ὸν : SEG
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography
[---] ν λοΙΙ[.] ον
a.10 Κ̣Α : SEG
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography
Υ̣Α
a.14 γυνὰ
γ
also consonant with π
: SEG
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography
ΓΥ
κ
also consonant with χ
ΙΑ
a.18 [τ]ὰ δὲ ἱαρῆ[ια] : Ferri, 1922
Ferri, S., 1922, Il santuario di Budrasc, Notiziario Archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie3, 95-99, fig. 13-20 - see in bibliography
[.] ἁ δὲ ἱάρε̣ι[α]
b.1
(This line was not considered differing from textpart a neither by Ferri nor by the editors of SEG)
a. [---] des offrandes [---] raisin sec [---]
b. Des Nymphes
a. [---] le reste [---] la dépense [---] femme [---] les victimes [---]
a. [---] of the offerings [---] raisin [---]
b. Of the Nymphs
a. [---] the rest [---] the expense [---] woman [---] the victims [---]
a. [---] delle offerte [---] uva passa [---]
b. Delle Ninfe
a. [---] il restante [---] la spesa [---] donna [---] le vittime [---]
This inscription, already very lacunar in Ferri's times, has been interpreted by him in relation with the goddesses mentioned in IGCyr051800, the Nymphs in his mind, an identification now rejected by other scholars.
Two reasons lead us to consider textpart b apart from the other lines: besides the taller and probably later lettering, the spelling νυμφῶν is a form of koine, whereas the rest of the text seems to be spelled in the local dialect.
From the text very few words survive, just allowing to agree with Ferri in thinking of a decree or a sacred law, the latter being more plausible at such a place.
At a. 18, Ferri's drawing shows two vertical strokes that might pertain to an eta, thus ἱαρῆιον rather than Ferri's proposed ἱάρεια.
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