Probably sacred law
IGCyr100100
Trismegistos ID: 738518
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 356.
Support
Lower right angle of a limestone stele, broken off above, at left and below (0.211; 0.23;0.13).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.01; slight serifs, dotted theta, slightly smaller omicron, slanting sigma, calice-shaped upsilon.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of third century B.C.
Findspot
Found by G. Oliverio before 1935 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , near the Wall of Nicodamos .
Later recorded Location
Seen by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 at the same place.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography III.35, 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 , 157 (photo).
Text
Apparatus
1
[---] Κ̣ΑΙΛΕ
α
also consonant with λ
[- max.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
[---]
+ΚΑΙΛΕ [- max.4 -]
2
ι
also consonant with ν
οὐδ᾿ἐνιαυτό[ν] : 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
+ου δ᾿ἐνιαυτο[---]
3 [ἐν τᾶ]ι πρατομηνία̣[ι] : 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
+πρατομη̣νία̣[---]
5 οὐ λᾶμμα : 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
οὐδ̣' ἅμμα : 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
οὐ λ̣ᾶμμα (the latter would mean 'vitta', i.e. 'sacred bandage')
6
[---] τᾶν οἱ τένται : (or)
[---] τᾶν οἳ τένται : 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
+ανοι τένται
French translation
Intraduisible (voir commentaire).
English translation
Not usefully translatable (see commentary).
Italian translation
Intraducibile (vedi commento).
Arabic translation
غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد
Commentary
In this very lacunar text, some elements point to the religious practice of the tithe: men owing a tithe (δεκατοί), profits (λᾶμμα) on which the amount of the tithe might be based. However the whole is very unclear.
At line 6 ΟΙ is probably the dative of the pronoun of 3sg. Anyhow, it should not be, as Pugliese Carratelli proposed, the relative at the nominative plural masculine, as the verb 'to be', here at the future, has the 3d person singular. As we do not know how much is lost of each line, it is impossible to restore the meaning further on.
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