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 pleiades; HGL : 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).
Dobias-Lalou, 2006 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2006, Le héros Dioscure à Apollonia de Cyrénaïque, in E. Fabbricotti, O. Menozzi (eds.), Cirenaica: studi, scavi e scoperte: atti del X Convegno di Archeologia Cirenaica, Chieti 24-26 Novembre 2003, BAR international series1488, Oxford, 85-96 - see in bibliography , pp. 91-94, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 56.2030, B. Cf. Dobias-Lalou, 2016 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2016, D'un prétendu héros Dioscure aux défunts héroïsés, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)n.s. 9, 163-176 - see in bibliography , pp. 164-165, 171
Seigneur, toi qui engendres.
O Lord, who gives life.
Signore, tu che dai la vita.
يا إلهي، يا من تمنح الحياة.
A similar relief, more complete in its upper part, has the inscription IGCyr093400, at which see for commentary.
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