Acclamation

IGCyr093500

Trismegistos ID: 738451

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 2985.

Support

Lower part of a small rectangular tapering stele of local limestone: it shows the feet of two figures apparently similar to those on IGCyr093400, and twelve straight horizontal serpents (0.175 to 0.195; 0.21;0.07 to 0.082).

Layout

Inscribed under the serpents.

Letters

0.018, deeply and carefully cut; sigma more or less slanting.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second century B.C.

Findspot

Found in 1966 at Cyrene : area of the Wadi El Aish .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Dobias-Lalou, 2006 , pp. 91-94, whence SEG , 56.2030, B. Cf. Dobias-Lalou, 2016 , pp. 164-165, 171

Text

Ἄναξ, ὃς γεν<ν>ᾷς.

Apparatus

French translation

Seigneur, toi qui engendres.

English translation

O Lord, who gives life.

Italian translation

Signore, tu che dai la vita.

Arabic translation

يا إلهي، يا من تمنح الحياة.

Commentary

A similar relief, more complete in its upper part, has the inscription IGCyr093400, at which see for commentary.

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