Repository
Cyrene Museum, 86.
Support
Fragment of a grey marble panel broken on top and at left, probably only chipped off at right (0.115; 0.16;0.06).
Layout
Inscribed on face: three (or more ?) columns of two lines each, then two lines on the whole width.
Letters
Lines 1 to 6: 0.02; line 7: 0.026; line 8: 0.011; slight serifs, sigma with parallel outer strokes.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of second century B.C.
Findspot
Found before 1938 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).
Fraser, 1958 Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography , pp. 118-119, n. 11, pl. XIII, 11, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 18.737; again Morelli, SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 259 (no image) as unpublished. Cf. Marengo, 1985 Marengo, S.M., 1985, Note di epigrafia cirenaica: edizioni ripetute, Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Macerata (AFLM)18, 145-162 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 36.1461; Rosamilia, 2014 Rosamilia, E., 2014, Firme di scultori della Cirenaica: un'analisi del corpus, in Luni, M. (ed.), Cirene greca e romana, Monografie di archeologia libica36, Cirene Atene d'Africa7, Roma, 89-106 - see in bibliography , n. 13.
5
[---] ιλέα : Fraser, 1958
Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography
[---] η̣λέα : SECir
Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography
, Rosamilia, 2014
Rosamilia, E., 2014, Firme di scultori della Cirenaica: un'analisi del corpus, in Luni, M. (ed.), Cirene greca e romana, Monografie di archeologia libica36, Cirene Atene d'Africa7, Roma, 89-106 - see in bibliography
[---] η̣λέα [---]
6
[---] [ί]π̣πω : Fraser, 1958
Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography
, Rosamilia, 2014
Rosamilia, E., 2014, Firme di scultori della Cirenaica: un'analisi del corpus, in Luni, M. (ed.), Cirene greca e romana, Monografie di archeologia libica36, Cirene Atene d'Africa7, Roma, 89-106 - see in bibliography
[Εὐί?]π̣πω : SECir
Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography
[---] [ί]π̣πω [---]
7
[---] τω : Fraser, 1958
Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography
[---] τῶ[ν] : SECir
Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography
[---] ΤΩ+
[---]
[Un tel fils d'un tel, un tel fils d'un tel], [---] ilea fille de [---] ippos (ont consacré la statue d') [un tel fils de ] [---] tos.
Oeuvre d'[un tel fils d'un tel et/ou de telle cité].
[So-and-so son of So-and-so, So-and-so son of So-and-so], [---] ilea daughter of [---] ippos (dedicated the statue of) [So-and-so son of] [---] tos.
Made by [So-and-so son of So-and-so and/or from such city].
[Il tale figlio del tale, il tale figlio del tale], [---] ilea figlia di [---] ippos (hanno dedicato la statua del) [tale figlio di ] [---] tos.
Opera [del tale figlio del tale e/o della tal città].
The most plausible restoration implies that there were three dedicants, whose father's name was written below (see for example IGCyr097900); however, if the artist was mentioned with name + father's name + ethnic, four dedicants are not impossible.
Anyhow there seems to be no text lost at right ( contra Morelli in SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography ).
Differently, in Fraser's view, lines 1 and 2 bore the names of two persons honoured by one single person whose name was written on line 3.
The first preserved letter at line 1 being an iota and not an eta, feminine names like Ἀκευσιλέα, Ἀναξιλέα or Κυδιλέα, all three already attested in Cyrenaica would be possible guesses.
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