Decree of Cyrene (?)
IGCyr062820
Trismegistos ID: 738332
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 572 (fragment a) and 60 (fragment b).
Support
Two adjacent fragments of a white marble stele broken on top, below and in the middle, which bore also IGCyr062800, IGCyr062810, IGCyr062830, IGCyr062840 and IGCyr062850; fragment a (0.20; 0.11;0.25) keeps the left edge of the stele; fragment b (0.09; 0.20;0.15) keeps the right edge of the stele.
Layout
Inscribed on the side to the right of IGCyr062800 and IGCyr062810; fragment a has been recut on top, so that the letters of line 1 are curtailed; both fragments are joining below at the levele of IGCyr062830, but do not provide a complete line for the present inscription.
Letters
0.007
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
After 139 B.C., probably still in second century B.C. (context)
Findspot
Fragment b was found on September 29th, 1929 by L. Pernier at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the Temple of Artemis ; fragment a was found also by L. Pernier on August 9th 1932 in the Greek Theatre .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, S.E.G. XVIII 727: révision et compléments, in G. Paci (ed.), Ἐπιγραφαί. Miscellanea epigrafica in onore di Lidio Gasperini, I, Ichnia5, Tivoli, 335-346 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 50.1639.B.I.
Text
Apparatus
2 ΚΑΠΟ[---] : Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, S.E.G. XVIII 727: révision et compléments, in G. Paci (ed.), Ἐπιγραφαί. Miscellanea epigrafica in onore di Lidio Gasperini, I, Ichnia5, Tivoli, 335-346 - see in bibliography κα πο[---]
3 [π]ρὸ κώ[μας? ---] : Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, S.E.G. XVIII 727: révision et compléments, in G. Paci (ed.), Ἐπιγραφαί. Miscellanea epigrafica in onore di Lidio Gasperini, I, Ichnia5, Tivoli, 335-346 - see in bibliography πρὸ ΚΩ[---]
4 [ἔκ?]δοτος : Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, S.E.G. XVIII 727: révision et compléments, in G. Paci (ed.), Ἐπιγραφαί. Miscellanea epigrafica in onore di Lidio Gasperini, I, Ichnia5, Tivoli, 335-346 - see in bibliography [---] δοτος
French translation
[---] mis(e) en vente en avant du village [---] publics/ques [---] affermé.
English translation
[---] offered for sale ahead of the village [---] public [---] leased.
Italian translation
[---] messa/i in vendita davanti al villaggio [---] pubblica/i [---] affittato.
Commentary
This fragmentary text mentions the status of some fields and the language is the dialect, like in IGCyr062810, but the hand is different so that it may be supposed that it belongs to another decree of the city.
At the beginning of line 2, the use of dialect allows either κα πο[ησ] [---] or a form of κᾶπος 'garden'.
At the end of line 2, πωλειμενα could be either a feminine singular (πωλειμένα) or a neutral plural (πωλείμενα) of the present middle participle. The same for δαμοσία and δαμόσια, which are probably related to the same lost word.
The inventory numbers show that at least some parts of the stone were already in the epigraphic collection at the time of the reorganization of the Cyrenaean antiquities after World War II care of Goodchild (from 1956 on) and before Fraser observed one of them. They were perhaps all found during the Italian period, like both fragments of IGCyr062830.
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