Repository
Cyrene Museum, 2074.
Support
Gray white marble fragment preserving the right angle of a rectangular block with top, right side and bottom surviving; on top, an oval depression (0.12; 0.042;0.11).
Layout
Inscribed in 2 lines on front face.
Letters
0.012; with serifs, alpha with dropped bar, sigma with parallel outer strokes, symmetrical pi, mu with a cursive shape.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of second or beginning of first century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 and again 1997 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Mohamed-Reynolds, 1998 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., 1998, New discoveries in the land of the Giligamae, in M. Khanoussi, P. Ruggeri, C. Vismara (eds.), L'Africa romana: atti del 12. Convegno di studio: Olbia, 12-15 dicembre 1996 (L'Africa romana12), I, Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di storia dell’Università degli studi di Sassari31, Sassari, 135-142 - see in bibliography , p. 140 n. 1b, and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 1999.625, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 48.2064.
1 η also consonant with ι, τ ρα : Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography τ̣ρα : Mohamed-Reynolds, 1998 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., 1998, New discoveries in the land of the Giligamae, in M. Khanoussi, P. Ruggeri, C. Vismara (eds.), L'Africa romana: atti del 12. Convegno di studio: Olbia, 12-15 dicembre 1996 (L'Africa romana12), I, Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di storia dell’Università degli studi di Sassari31, Sassari, 135-142 - see in bibliography κ̣α
Ce [---] (a été consacré) à [---] , par Polymnis.
This [---] (was dedicated) to [---] by Polymnis.
Questo [---] (è stato dedicato) a [---] da Polymnis.
هذا [---] (كان قد كرس) ل [---] من قبل بوليمنيس.
Mohamed and Reynolds described the block as «probably an altar». However, the oval depression does not seem to allow this interpretation. One might better think of a basis supporting a circular basin.
The few letters surviving at line 1 can be clearly read from autopsy and squeeze, but for the first one, of which only the lower part of the hasta survives. Feminine names ending with τρα do exist, namely Cleopatra and others, but how could such a name be combined with a masculine name also at the nominative, especially on such an object? A more coherent reading might be the accusative -[λωτ]ῆ̣ρα, 'basin', for which see at IGCyr120300. However it would be necessary to check again the fragments to push this suggestion ahead.
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