Repository
Cyrene Museum, 263.
Support
Fragment of a white marble panel broken on all sides (0.18; 0.17;0.05).
Layout
Inscribed in two columns on front face, with varying spaces between letters depending of their number in each name.
Letters
0.008 to 0.1; with serifs, markedly developed for omega; pi with wide upper bar, rho with small loop, non-slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of second or beginning of first century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1935 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unregistered.
Later recorded Location
Seen by Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 in the same museum.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 17 (no image). 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 , pp. 253-254 (ph.).
a.2
[---] λ̣ω : SECir
Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography
[---] ω
a.10
(the letter was seen by Oliverio but is now lost)
b.1 Κα̣ρ̣ν̣ή̣[δας---] : SECir
Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography
Κα̣+
[---]
b.4 Βαλι[ς] : SECir
Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography
Βαλι[---]
b.6 Ἀντέροτ̣[ις?] : SECir
Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography
Ἀντέροτ̣[---]
b.11 Λεόντ̣[ιχος?] : SECir
Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography
Λέων[---]
col. a: intraduisible (finales de génitif de patronymes).
col. b: [---] Karnèdas [fils d'un tel], Polumnastos [fils d'un tel], Hermaios [fils d'un tel], Balis [fils d'un tel], Théodôros [fils d'un tel] Antérot[is fils d'un tel], Eukarpos [fils d'un tel], Ammônios [fils d'un tel], Nikaios [fils d'un tel], Théodôros [fils d'un tel], Léont[is fils d'un tel], Paraib[batas fils d'un tel], [---] .
col. a: not usefully translatable (endings of genitive of fathers' names).
col. b: [---] Karnedas (son of So-and-so), Polymnastos [son of So-and-so], Hermaios [son of So-and-so], Balis [son of So-and-so], Theodoros[son of So-and-so], Anterot[is son of So-and-so], Eukarpos [son of So-and-so], Ammonios [son of So-and-so], Nikaios [son of So-and-so], Theodoros [son of So-and-so], Leont[is son of So-and-so], Paraib[atas son of So-and-so], [---] .
col. a: intraducibile (finali di genitivi di patronimici).
col. b: [---] Karnedas (figlio del tale), Polymnastos [figlio del tale], Hermaios [figlio del tale], Balis [figlio del tale], Theodoros[figlio del tale], Anterot[is figlio del tale], Eukarpos [figlio del tale], Ammonios [figlio del tale], Nikaios [figlio del tale], Theodoros [figlio del tale], Leont[is figlio del tale], Paraib[atas figlio del tale], [---] .
The names in column b, although not complete, were at the nominative case. They were probably followed by their fathers' names, as shown by the endings preserved in column a, of which only 1 or 2 letters survive and are not translatable.
At b.4 the space available allows only to restore a final sigma. Hence a name Βαλις, a hapax legomenon , probably of Libyan origin, to add to those mentioned by Masson, 1976 Masson, O., 1976, Grecs et Libyens en Cyrénaïque, d'après les témoignages de l'épigraphie, Antiquités Africaines10, 49-62 - see in bibliography , p. 60. The name is also missing in Fraser-Matthews, 1987 Fraser, P.M., Matthews, E. (eds.), 1987, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, I: The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, Cyrenaica, Oxford - see in bibliography .
At b.6 Oliverio and Pugliese Carratelli did not restore any ending for this name. The space available allows one letter, which is impossible for a nominative (there are only masculine names in the list), or two letters out of which an iota. The produced name is hitherto unknown. The omicron instead of the predictable omega in the third syllable is not impossible at a late Hellenistic date.
At line 11 the third letter is definitely an omicron, followed by what may pertain to a tau. Hence our restoration with a name already attested.
The name of line 12 in column b may be supplied as Παραιβάτας: the space left after the beta does not allow to have an iota which would be necessary for the other possible restoration, i.e. Πάραιβις; we can thus suspect that the stone was broken along the left hasta of the alpha.
From the layout and style of the lettering, it seems plausible that we have here a list of ephebes mentioned as dedicants for Hermes and Heracles, as proposed by 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 , pp. 253-254 (ph.).
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