Repository
Cyrene Museum, 9.
Support
Left part of a white marble panel broken at right (0.205; 0.25;0.04).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.011-0.015; sigma with parallel outer strokes, phi with flattened loop, widening upsilon.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Ca. 150 B.C. (lettering)
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. 108-111, n. 3, pl. XII, 3, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 18.739; Gasperini, 1967 Gasperini, L., 1967, Le epigrafi, in S. Stucchi, Cirene 1957-1966: Un decennio di attività della missione archeologica italiana a Cirene, Quaderni dell'Istituto italiano di cultura di Tripoli3, Tripoli, 165-189 [= , 75-104] - see in bibliography , p. 171, n. 23; Chevrollier, 2010 Chevrollier, F., 2010, Recherches sur les magistratures des cités de Cyrénaïque: l’exemple des éphores, Mare Internum2, 129-144 - see in bibliography , whence Tybout in SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 60.1827. Cf. Ottone, 2000 Ottone, G., 2000, Alcune considerazioni sull’eforato nelle poleis della Cirenaica, Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica (MEP)3.3, 69-81 [= ] - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 50.1629.
1 ἐ̣[πὶ ---] : Fraser, 1958 Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography ἐ̣[φ' ἱαρεῦς ---] : Gasperini, 1967 Gasperini, L., 1967, Le epigrafi, in S. Stucchi, Cirene 1957-1966: Un decennio di attività della missione archeologica italiana a Cirene, Quaderni dell'Istituto italiano di cultura di Tripoli3, Tripoli, 165-189 [= , 75-104] - see in bibliography ἐ̣[φ' ἱαρεῦς](vac.) : Chevrollier, 2010 Chevrollier, F., 2010, Recherches sur les magistratures des cités de Cyrénaïque: l’exemple des éphores, Mare Internum2, 129-144 - see in bibliography ἐ[φ' ἱαρεῦς τῶ Ἀπόλλωνος?]
2 Fraser, 1958 Fraser, P.M., 1958, Inscriptions from Cyrene, Berytus12, 101-128 - see in bibliography Φιλόξην[ος ---] : Gasperini, 1967 Gasperini, L., 1967, Le epigrafi, in S. Stucchi, Cirene 1957-1966: Un decennio di attività della missione archeologica italiana a Cirene, Quaderni dell'Istituto italiano di cultura di Tripoli3, Tripoli, 165-189 [= , 75-104] - see in bibliography , Chevrollier, 2010 Chevrollier, F., 2010, Recherches sur les magistratures des cités de Cyrénaïque: l’exemple des éphores, Mare Internum2, 129-144 - see in bibliography Φιλοξήν[ω ---]
Les éphores sous [---] Philoxènos [---] , Télésikratès [fils d'Untel], Damanthès [fils d'Untel], Philoxènos [fils d'Untel], Sôsis fils de Po [---] , Philytas [fils d'un tel], Hagèsistratos [fils d'un tel], [ont consacré ] le cadran solaire.
The ephori under [---] Philoxenos [---] , Telesikrates [son of So-and-so], Damanthes [son of So-and-so], Philoxenos [son of So-and-so], Sosis son of Po [---] , Philytas [son of So-and-so], Hagesistratos [son of So-and-so], [dedicated] the sun-dial.
Gli efori sotto [---] Philoxenos [---] , Telesikrates [figlio del tale], Damanthes [figlio del tale], Philoxenos [figlio del tale], Sosis figlio di Po [---] , Philytas [figlio del tale], Hagesistratos [figlio del tale], [dedicarono] la meridiana.
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.
Given the lacunae, it is impossible to decide definitely what was the layout of ll. 1 and 2, hence to determine the exact formula in use in the head of the dedication. Four restorations are possible, which might be translated as follows: 1) The ephori under [the priest] Philoxenos [son of So-and-so] (followed by a list of 6 ephori: Gasperini's opinion); 2) The ephori under [the priest of Apollo] Philoxenos [son of So-and-so] (also with 6 ephori: Chevrollier's alternative suggestion); 3) The ephori under [priest So-and-so], namely Philoxenos [son of So-and-so] (hence 7 ephori: Fraser's opinion); 4) The ephori under [So-and-so], namely Philoxenos [So-and-so] (also with 7 ephori, a variant that would leave more space for the name of the priest). Whatever the solution, there were more ephori at the time than had been provided in Ptolemy's diagramma in 320 B.C. (IGCyr010800, line 33).
According to Ottone and Chevrollier, the dedication of a sun-dial might imply that the ephori practiced astroscopy, a fact that is strongly denied by Tybout in SEG.
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