Name

IGCyr096500

Trismegistos ID: 738475

Source Description

Support

Upper left angle of a rectangular base of smooth limestone, broken at right and below, with a rectangular hole on top (0.25; 0.16;0.15).

Layout

Inscribed on the face, beginning near the upper edge.

Letters

0.028; slanting sigma, nearly symmetrical nu.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1925 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Present Location

Seems to be lost since 1960 at the latest.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Oliverio, Taccuini inediti , XI.34, whence SECir , 62 (fig. 57).

Text

Κάρνις Νι[κ---] 

Apparatus

1 Νι[κ] : SECir  Νικ̣

French translation

Karnis fils de Nik[---] .

English translation

Karnis son of Nik[---] .

Italian translation

Karnis figlio di Nik[---] .

Commentary

Known only from a photograph in Oliverio's archive; findspot and date of discovery based upon the number of his sketchbook. Pugliese Carratelli already in 1960 was not able to trace the stone.

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