Repository
Benghazi Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
Rectangular base of grey-brown limestone, chipped along the edges and pitted on the surface (0.61; 0.21;0.765).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.025; alpha with dropped bar, smaller circular letters, sigma with four slanting strokes, very slight serifs.
Place of Origin
Date
Perhaps second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1974 or 1975 at Berenike pleiades; HGL : re-used in a late wall of the Church .
Last recorded Location
Seen by J.M. Reynolds before 1976 at Benghazi: Benghazi Museum .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor (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 , pp. 233-234, n. 2 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 28.1542.
1 Χαρμί[ππα] : 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 Χαρμ̣ε̣ί̣δ[αν ....] μ also consonant with ν ιο̣ς
2 (vac. 3) τ̣[ὸν ἑαυ]τᾶς : 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 ι also consonant with μ, ν [.....] ύτας
3 Ἴ̣α[σι]ν̣ Λ̣υσ̣ανία : 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 ἱ̣α̣ρ̣[ι]τ̣εύσ̣αντα
Kharmi[ppa] fille de [---] (a consacré la statue de) son mari Iasis fils de Lysanias à Apollon.
Charmi[ppa] daughter of [---] (dedicated the statue of) her husband Iasis son of Lysanias to Apollo.
Charmi[ppa] figlia di [---] (ha dedicato la statua di) suo marito Iasis figlio di Lysanias ad Apollo.
We take Reynolds' dimensions, but share them out differently, according to the proportions given by the photograph.
In Reynolds' restoration, the name of the wife dedicating the statue would be lacking. And some of her readings do not fit the photograph, especially at line 2.
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