Repository
Benghazi Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
White marble rectangular base, badly chipped off on the first line of inscription and below (1.01; 0.21;0.89).
Layout
Inscribed on the face; both lines begin near the left margin.
Letters
0.025; no serifs, sigma with slanting strokes, omicron slightly smaller than omega, dissymmetrical pi.
Place of Origin
Date
Second half of fourth or first half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1974 at Berenike pleiades; HGL : reused in Byzantine times under the Church .
Last recorded Location
Seen by Fr. Chamoux and A. Laronde in 1977.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors (CDL).
Reynolds, 1978 Reynolds, J.M., 1978, Inscriptions, in J.A. Lloyd (ed.), Excavations at Sidi Khrebish Benghazi (Berenice), I, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)Suppl. 5, 233-254 - see in bibliography , p. 233, n. 1 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 28.1541; Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 394 (as unpublished), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 38.1870.
1 Reynolds, 1978 Reynolds, J.M., 1978, Inscriptions, in J.A. Lloyd (ed.), Excavations at Sidi Khrebish Benghazi (Berenice), I, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)Suppl. 5, 233-254 - see in bibliography Εὐγένης [c. 6] ντος : Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography Εὔξενος Μ [c. 8 - 10]ντος
Eug̣ẹṇẹ̀ṣ fils d'[Arimmas?] (a consacré) la dîme à Apollon.
Eug̣ẹṇẹṣ son of [Arimmas?] (dedicated) the tithe to Apollo.
Eug̣ẹṇẹṣ figlio di [Arimmas?] (ha dedicato) la decima ad Apollo.
The letters missing at l. 1 have been erased when the stone was re-used. For the father's name, to judge from the photograph, we agree with Reynolds for a loss of 6 letters, so that Ἀρίμμας seems a good restoration. As to the first name, it is not easy to decide between the two different readings proposed. We only may suspect that Reynolds could spend more time to study the inscription than Laronde and Chamoux on their brief visit in 1976.
Reynolds dated the lettering to «perhaps third to second century B.C.»; however the photograph shows letters belonging to the «buona epoca» so often mentioned by Oliverio for the period across fourth and third century. Be the date Laronde's «fourth century» or somewhat later, the stone is probably earlier than the foundation of Berenike. It was found near the few vestiges of its first city-walls. So we may suspect that the stone was brought from Euesperides, re-used a first time in the city-defences of Berenike and later again in the Byzantine Church.
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