Names
IGCyr096950
Trismegistos ID: 738481
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 156.
Support
Fragment of marble panel broken on all sides, but for a small part of the righthand edge at back, showing a moulding on rim of back face (0.215; 0.145;0.045 at the deepest).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.03; carefully cut, with serifs; non-slanting sigma, rather large omicron.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps second half of second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found between 1929 and 1932 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : probably in the Sanctuary of Apollo (see commentary).
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1979 by Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography , X.4, X.20, whence 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 , 82 (no image).
Apparatus
French translation
(Un tel fils de ) [---] kis, (Un tel fils de ) [---] rsilas.
English translation
(So-and-so son of ) [---] kis, (So-and-so son of ) [---] rsilas.
Italian translation
(Il tale figlio di ) [---] kis, (il tale figlio di ) [---] rsilas.
Commentary
Pugliese Carratelli published this inscription from a drawing by Oliverio, hesitantely adding that the stone came from the excavations of the 'Piazzale', a word that means either the lower terrace of the Sanctuary of Apollo or the Fountain Terrace. Other items registered in the same notebook of Oliverio's were found in 1925, when excavations were operated only in the lower terrace. The excavations on the Fountain Terrace took place from 1929 to 1933. So the exact date and findplace remain unclear.
For line 1, no Greek name in -κιος is attested in Cyrene, whereas a series of names in -κις does. So both endings should be taken as genitives of fathers' names.
For line 2, we know of a Cyrenaean Θερσίλας at IGCyr014700 line 35. However, other compounds in -σίλας are also possible.
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