List of names, probably priests of Apollo
IGCyr081800
Trismegistos ID: 738386
Source Description
Support
Large marble block, probably re-cut from a large pillar and twice re-used later on, upper left angle of present block broken off (present dimensions corresponding to the first use 0.35; 0.23;0.97).
Layout
Inscribed at different periods on three different faces with IGCyr081800, IRCyr C.456 and IRCyr C.457; when IGCyr081800 was inscribed, the left hand edge was probably already damaged, so that ll. 6 and 7 had to be inset.
Letters
0.014-0.018; each line is cut in a different hand or at least on a different occasion; sigma with parallel outer strokes, alpha with straight bar, slight serifs.
Place of Origin
Date
First half of second century B.C. (prosopography)
Findspot
Found in winter 1987-1988 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : after heavy rains in the lower levels of the Western part of the Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Bibliography
Mohamed-Reynolds, 1994 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., 1994, An inscribed stone from the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore in the Wadi Belgadir at Cyrene: cult, corn and Roman revenues, in J. Reynolds (ed.), Cyrenaican Archaeology: an International Colloquium, Cambridge, 20-31 March 1993, Libyan Studies (LibStud)25, 211-217 - see in bibliography , pp. 213-214, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 44.1537; Habicht, 1996 Habicht, C., 1996, Prosopographica: Kyrene, Libyan Studies (LibStud)27, 7-8 - see in bibliography and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 1997.706), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 46.2201; again Reynolds, 2012 Reynolds, J.M., 2012, Appendix: the inscriptions on stone and lead, in D. White (ed.), The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, final reports VIII: the sanctuary’s imperial architectural development, conflict with Christianity, and final days, Philadelphia - see in bibliography , pp. 197-198 n. A.28/1. Cf. Dobias-Lalou, 2016 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2016, Sur les listes d'anthroponymes de Cyrène à l'époque hellénistique, Studi Ellenistici30, 239-258 - see in bibliography , p. 251.
Text
Apparatus
1 [Καρν]ήδας : Mohamed-Reynolds, 1994 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., 1994, An inscribed stone from the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore in the Wadi Belgadir at Cyrene: cult, corn and Roman revenues, in J. Reynolds (ed.), Cyrenaican Archaeology: an International Colloquium, Cambridge, 20-31 March 1993, Libyan Studies (LibStud)25, 211-217 - see in bibliography [Καρν?]ήδας
2 [Ἁν]ίοχος : Mohamed-Reynolds, 1994 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., 1994, An inscribed stone from the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore in the Wadi Belgadir at Cyrene: cult, corn and Roman revenues, in J. Reynolds (ed.), Cyrenaican Archaeology: an International Colloquium, Cambridge, 20-31 March 1993, Libyan Studies (LibStud)25, 211-217 - see in bibliography [Ἁν?]ίοχος
French translation
[Karn]èdas fils d'Aiglanôr, [Han]iokhos fils d'Arkhedamos, [A]iglanôr fils de Bakal, [P]olianthès fils de Kartisthénès, Kallimakhos fils de Poseidônios, Mnasarkhos fils d'Euphranôr, Etearkhos fils de Kléôn.
English translation
[Karn]edas son of Aiglanor, [Han]iochos son of Archedamos, [A]iglanor son of Bakal, [P]olianthes son of Kartisthenes, Kallimachos son of Poseidonios, Mnasarchos son of Euphranor, Etearchos son of Kleon.
Italian translation
[Karn]edas figlio di Aiglanor, [Han]iochos figlio di Archedamos, [A]iglanor figlio di Bakal, [P]olianthes figlio di Kartisthenes, Kallimachos figlio di Poseidonios, Mnasarchos figlio di Euphranor, Etearchos figlio di Kleon.
Commentary
Names at ll. 1 and 2 may be restored with certainty, because they are the only ones from the onomastic record fitting the space available and are both typical Cyrenaican names.
This list of names is very similar to later lists of priests, about which see for instance IRCyr C.394. For other possible instances of late Hellenistic date, see Dobias-Lalou, 2016 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2016, Le toponyme Ptolemaion dans les inscriptions de Cyrène: un essai de clarification, Revue des Études Grecques (REG)129, 39-61 - see in bibliography .
All names here are very common in high-rank families of Cyrene. Habicht, 1996 Habicht, C., 1996, Prosopographica: Kyrene, Libyan Studies (LibStud)27, 7-8 - see in bibliography has convincingly pointed out that Carnedas son of Aiglanor (line 1) is plausibly the proxenos of Sparta mentioned in IG Inscriptiones Graecae, I-XIV, Berlin, 1903- - see in bibliography , VI.5 (about 188 B.C.). Whereas the Callimachos son of Poseidonios (line 5) whom he thinks might be a thearodochos of Delphi mentioned in Plassart, 1921 Plassart, A., 1921, Inscriptions de Delphes. La liste des théorodoques, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (BCH), 45, 1-85 - see in bibliography , p. 21, IV, l. 21, the identification remains uncertain, as his father's name is not mentioned there and his own name is a very common one at Cyrene.
The stone having been obviously re-cut, it is impossible to guess whether lines 1 and 7 are respectively the beginning or the end of the list. Moreover, the photograph seems to show some traces of erased letters below line 7, but this cannot be pushed ahead without direct examination.
It should be remembered that those lists are no annals and mention, one by one, in chronological order, only some of the eponymous priests, who were thought deserving that honour by a public authority, giving permission to cut their names on steles standing both in Apollo's sanctuary and on the agora.
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