Repository
Cyrene Museum, 12.
Support
Top left angle of a white marble panel, whose surface is chipped off (0.165; 0.15;0.055).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.015; carefully cut with thickening ends; dropped bar alpha, non-slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
FIndspot.
Date
Between 145 and 116 B.C. (reign)
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).
Fraser, 1958 Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography , pp. 115-116, n. 8, pl. XIII, 8, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 18.738. Cf. Lanciers, 1988 Lanciers, E., 1988, Die Alleinherrschaft des Ptolemaios VIII. im Jahre 164/163 v. Chr. und der Name Euergetes, in B.G. Mandilaras (ed.), Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Papyrology, Athens 25-31 May 1986, II, Athens, 405-433 - see in bibliography , pp. 431-433, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 38.1671.
2 [τὴν ---] : Fraser, 1958
Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography
[τὴν προσευχὴν] : Fraser, 1958
Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography
[τὴν ζωθήκην]
4
[---] : Fraser, 1958
Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography
[οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι?]
En faveur du roi Ptolémée, Dieu Evergète, la [---] et ses annexes et tout ce qu'elle contient [ont été consacrés par] [---] .
For the prosperity of king Ptolemy, God Euergetes, the [---] and its annexes and all that it contains [were dedicated by] [---] .
Per il re Tolemeo, Dio Evergete, la [---] e i suoi annessi e tutto ciò che essa contiene [sono stati dedicati da] [---] .
Fraser suspected that the word missing at line 2, a feminine as inferred from the following αὐτήν should be a building, possibly a 'synagogue' or a 'chapel' which would lead to suspect Jews to be the dedicants mentioned at line 4. This idea is rejected by Lanciers ( Lanciers, 1988 Lanciers, E., 1988, Die Alleinherrschaft des Ptolemaios VIII. im Jahre 164/163 v. Chr. und der Name Euergetes, in B.G. Mandilaras (ed.), Proceedings of the XVIII International Congress of Papyrology, Athens 25-31 May 1986, II, Athens, 405-433 - see in bibliography , pp. 431-433).
The inventory number shows that the stone was already part of 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 it. It may well have been found already during the last years of the Italian period.
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