Repository
Cyrene Museum, 82.
Support
Grey marble block, worked out so as to form a double-moulded console, the inscribed face being the upper face of the console, broken to the right (0.21; 0.125;0.06).
Layout
Inscribed on the horizontal face of the console.
Letters
l. 1 0.016, ll. 2-5 0.013.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Third century B.C.
Findspot
Found before 1935 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Later recorded Location
Seen by Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou at the same place.
Text constituted from
Editor's transcription.
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 , 23 (photo); Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique Robert, J. and L., Bulletin Épigraphique in Revue des Études Grecques (REG)1938-1984 - see in bibliography , 1964.562. Cf. Dobias-Lalou, 2003 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2003, Notes sur le Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, in Studi in memoria di Lidiano Bacchielli, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)18, 211-221 - see in bibliography , pp. 211-216, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 53.2049; cf. Marengo, 2007 Marengo, S.M., 2007, Sacerdotesse di Artemide a Cirene: note epigrafiche, in L. Gasperini, S. Marengo (eds.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'antichità: atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Roma-Frascati, 18-21 dicembre 1996, Ichnia9, Tivoli, 401-410 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 57.1997.
2 [σὺν] : 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
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3 Πο[---]
(it might have) Πό[λωνος]
4
- see in bibliography
[ἀργυρίω] : 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
[---]
5
Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique
Robert, J. and L., Bulletin Épigraphique in Revue des Études Grecques (REG)1938-1984 - see in bibliography
δ[ραχμᾶν ---] : 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
Δ̣[---]
Anaxiléa, prêtresse (d'Artémis) la même année qu'Hagèsitratos fils de Po [---] , a consacré une phiale de [tant de] drachmes d'argent d'Alexandre.
Anaxilea, priestess (of Artemis) the same year as Hagesitratos son of Po [---] , dedicated a phiale of [so many] silver drachms of Alexandre.
Anaxilea, sacerdotessa (di Artemide) nello stesso anno di Hagesistratos figlio di Po [---] , ha dedicato una phiale di [tante] dracme d'argento di Alessandro.
أناكسيليا ، كاهنة (أرتميس) في نفس السنة التي كان فيها هاجيستراتوس بن بو [---] كاهناً، أهدت كأساً يُكلف [العديد من] دراخمات الأسكندر الفضة.
It is not clear whether the console shape corresponds, as supposed by Oliverio, to a re-use later than the inscription. The phiale might have stood on the console near the inscription and be readable if the console was not fixed too high.
The priest of Apollo with whom Anaxilea was priestess is also recorded in the account of damiergoi IGCyr014300; as his father's name should not be too long, Πόλων would be a nice guess.
At the end of l. 2, σύν might be added, see IGCyr092000.
For other dedications with the value given in drachms of Alexander, see IGCyr125600 and IGCyr127500. For the adoption of Alexander's silver drachma, see Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 240. About Alexandre's silver, see Knoepfler, 1997 Knoepfler, D., 1997, Alexandreion nomisma. L'apparition et la disparition de l'argent d'Alexandre dans les inscriptions grecques. Quelques réflexions complémentaires, Topoi. Orient Occident, 7.1, 33-50 - see in bibliography .
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