Repository
Cyrene Museum, 265.
Support
White marble square panel (0.4; 0.4;0.05).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.015, very carefully cut on the entire surface.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
350-320 B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1925 at Euesperides pleiades; HGL .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Ferri, 1925 Ferri, S., 1925 (publ. 1926), Alcune iscrizioni di Cirene, Abhandlungen der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Klasse5, 3-40 - see in bibliography , p. 18 (partial mention); Fraser, 1951 Fraser, P.M., 1951, An inscription from Euesperides, Bulletin de la société royale d'archéologie d'Alexandrie (BSAA)39, 132-143 - see in bibliography , and Fraser, 1953 Fraser, P.M., 1953, Corrigendum, Bulletin de la société royale d'archéologie d'Alexandrie (BSAA)40, 62 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 18.772. Cf. Chamoux, 1953 Chamoux, F., 1953, Cyrène sous la monarchie des Battiades, Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome177, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 214, footnote 8 whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique Robert, J. and L., Bulletin Épigraphique in Revue des Études Grecques (REG)1938-1984 - see in bibliography , 1954.278; Manganaro, 1989 Manganaro, G., 1989, Movimenti di uomini tra Egitto e Sicilia (III-I sec. a.C.), in L. Criscuolo, G. Geraci (eds.), Egitto e storia antica dall’ellenismo all’età araba: bilancio di un confronto. Atti del Colloquio internazionale, Bologna, 31 agosto - 2 settembre 1987, Bologna, 513-553 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 39.1680; Manganaro, 1990 Manganaro, G., 1990, Due studi di numismatica greca, Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia (ASNP)20, 409-427 - see in bibliography , p. 426, n. 71, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 40.1594; 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; Gill, 2004 Gill, D.W.J., 2004, Euesperides: Cyrenaica and its contacts with the Greek world, in K. Lomas (ed.), Greek identity in the Western Mediterranean: papers in honour of Brian Shefton, MnemosyneSuppl. 246, Leiden-Boston, 391-409 - see in bibliography , p. 391, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 54.1778.
Sur proposition des éphores et des gérontes , le conseil a décidé: qu'Eubios fils d'Eubiôtos et Agestratos fils de Moskhiôn, de Syracuse, soient proxènes des Euhespéritains, eux-mêmes et leurs descendants.
The ephoroi and the gerontes having proposed, the council decided: that Eubios son of Eubiotos and Agestratos son of Moschion, from Syracusae, would be proxenoi of the Euesperitans, themselves and their offspring.
Su proposta degli efori e dei gerontes , il consiglio ha deciso: che Eubios figlio di Eubiotos e Agestratos figlio di Moschion, di Siracusa, siano prosseni degli Euesperitani, loro e i loro discendenti.
This is the only official document known to us from the city of Euesperides. It gives useful informations about its institution, with a council and ephoroi taking part in the decision. It is also the only proxeny mentioned in the Cyrenaican inscriptions.
The stone, originating from Euesperides, was published from a photograph by Fraser, who thought that it was lost. However, C. Dobias-Lalou could see it in 1976 at Cyrene, where it was evidently brought as a consequence of the multiple movings of World War II.
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