Repository
Cyrene Museum, 84 (fragm. a) and 304 (fragm. b).
Support
Two non adjacent fragments of a white marble stele bearing also IGCyr062800, IGCyr062810, IGCyr062820, IGCyr062830, and IGCyr062840; fragment a (0.04; 0.105;0.17), broken on all sides except on the left, is cut on the face next to IGCyr062810 on its left; fragment b (0.07; 0.16;0.16) is broken on all sides except on the right.
Layout
Inscribed under IGCyr062840.
Letters
0.01; same hand as IGCyr062830 and IGCyr062840.
Place of Origin
Date
After 139 B.C., probably still in second century B.C. (lettering, context)
Findspot
Found before 1956 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Fragment a: Fraser, 1958 Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography , pp. 101-104, n. 1.B, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 18.727; with fragment b (hitherto unpublished): Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, S.E.G. XVIII 727: révision et compléments, in G. Paci (ed.), Ἐπιγραφαί.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.IV.
[---] sans [---] conformément aux [---] dont ils ont délibéré [---] vers/ en rapport avec cela [---] des dieux [---] .
[---] without [---] following the [---] about which they have deliberated [---] regarding those matters [---] of the gods [---] .
[---] senza [---] conformemente a [---] su cui hanno deliberato [---] riguardo queste faccende [---] degli dèi [---] .
Because a part is lost, it cannot be decided whether IGCyr062840 is the beginning of the same document or of a different one; anyway this is again a text in koine and should come from the Ptolemaic authorities.
The gods mentioned at l. 9 may be either traditional Greek gods or the divinised royals.
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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