Repository
Cyrene Museum, 44.
Support
Fragmentary limestone block reddish from earth, broken on all sides except at right; written on front and right side (IGCyr097350) (0.11; 0.165;0.05).
Layout
Inscribed on the wider side.
Letters
0.005 to 0.01; very small omicron and theta, very large delta, slanting sigma, dissymmetrical nu; probably by a second hand from l. 9 on.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C.
Findspot
Found in 1936 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 in 1979 at the same place.
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 , 115 (ph.). Cf. Fraser, 1972 Fraser, P.M., 1972, Ptolemaic Alexandria, I-III, Oxford - see in bibliography vol. II, pp. 826-827, footnote 221; 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. 396.
1
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
[---] [Ἱ]λιεύς
2
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
, Fraser, 1972
Fraser, P.M., 1972, Ptolemaic Alexandria, I-III, Oxford - see in bibliography
[---] [Γαρ]γαρεύς
3
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
[---] [Κυζι]κηνός : 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
[---] [Λαμψα]κηνός : Fraser, 1972
Fraser, P.M., 1972, Ptolemaic Alexandria, I-III, Oxford - see in bibliography
[Λαμ]ψακηνός (see commentary)
4
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
[---] [Τραλλι]ανός (tentatively suggested by Pugliese Carratelli)
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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
[---] νιεύς
7
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
[---] ιος
11
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
[---] Σ̣υρακ[όσιος] (perhaps written by a third hand)
[---] , [Untel] mégarien [Untel] mégarien, [Untel] de [---] que, [Untel de telle cité], (5) [Untel de telle cité], [Untel d'Apoll?]onia, [---] nos (ou [Untel fils de] [---] n) rhodien, [Untel] thébain, [Untel de telle cité], (10) [Untel] rhodien, [Untel] syracusain, [---] .
[---] , [So-and-so] a Megarian [So-and-so] a Megarian, [So-and-so] from [---] kos, [So-and-so from such city], (5) [So-and-so from such city], [So-and-so from Apoll?]onia, [---] nos (or [So-and-so son of] [---] n) a Rhodian, [So-and-so] a Theban, [So-and-so from such city], (10) [So-and-so] a Rhodian, [So-and-so] a Syracusan, [---] .
[---] , [il tale] da Megara, [il tale] da Megara, [il tale] da [---] kos, [il tale dalla tal città], (5) [il tale dalla tal città], [il tale da Apoll?]onia, [---] nos (o [il tale figlio di] [---] n) da Rodi, [il tale] da Tebe, [il tale dalla tal città], (10) [il tale] da Rodi, [il tale] da Siracusa, [---] .
Pugliese Carratelli spoke of a limestone panel and then of letters inscribed before firing («incisi prima della cottura»), as if it was a terracotta. However the observation of the stone confirms that it is a limestone block, reddish from the soil.
At line 1, the reading [Ἰ]λιεύς is not possible; the same ending -γαρεύς occurs at line 2 and the most evident restoration would be Μεγαρεύς, although Γαργαρεύς is not impossible.
At line 3, Fraser, 1972 Fraser, P.M., 1972, Ptolemaic Alexandria, I-III, Oxford - see in bibliography vol. II, pp. 826-827, footnote 221 Fraser thought that he could read on his squeeze two letters more at the beginning of the line; however, as Dobias-Lalou saw the stone in 1979 exactly in the status shown by the photograph in 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 , 115 this seems impossible, unless Fraser saw in the Museum a supplementary fragment that he did not mention. It is impossible to choose between the two restorations proposed by Pugliese Carratelli. Both Kyzikos and Lampsakos are located in the North-West of Asia Minor and their ethnics share the regional suffix -ηνός.
At line 6, if we really have the ethnic of a city named Apollonia, it is impossible to known which one.
At line 9, we keep Pugliese Carratelli's reading, although the traces of letters are very faint and would be, if ever, written by a second hand. The reading is very uncertain.
We have no other instance of individual foreigners mentioned in a list in any inscription from Cyrenaica. The topic is unknown. Anyhow, Fraser's ( Fraser, 1972 Fraser, P.M., 1972, Ptolemaic Alexandria, I-III, Oxford - see in bibliography , vol. II, p. 582) interpretation of the fragment as a list of mercenaries is far from proven. See the doubts of 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. 396.
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