Sacred law
IGCyr100300
Trismegistos ID: 6188
Source Description
Support
Left part of a marble panel (?) (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
Height unknown; no serifs, very small omicron, upper loop of beta larger than the lower one, phi with flattened loop.
Place of Origin
Cyrene pleiades; HGL , Sanctuary of Apollo , Temple of Hekate .
Date
Second half of third or first half of second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1937 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL , East of Greek Theatre .
Present Location
Not found by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960.
Present Location
Never seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography , III.17, whence Pugliese Carratelli, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., 1961, Un documento del culto di Ecate a Cirene, La Parola del Passato (PP)16, 456-457 - see in bibliography and 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 , 159 and Sokolowski, 1962 Sokolowski, F., 1962, Lois sacrées des cités grecques: Supplément, Travaux et mémoires des anciens membres étrangers de l'École et de divers savants11, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 220, n. 133, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 20.718.
Apparatus
3 λίβανo[ς] : Pugliese Carratelli, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., 1961, Un documento del culto di Ecate a Cirene, La Parola del Passato (PP)16, 456-457 - see in bibliography , 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 λιβανω[τός]
French translation
Espace sacré d'Hécate. Ne pas introduire d'encens.
English translation
Sacred area of Hekate. Do not bring in incense.
Italian translation
Area sacra di Ecate. Non introdurre incenso.
Commentary
This inscription was published by Pugliese Carratelli from a photograph of the Department Archives, already known to Oliverio, which allows to date the find at the latest in 1937.
The photograph shows very clearly that the last readable letter at line 3 is an omicron rather than an omega, so the foundation word λίβανος should be read instead of the derived form preferred by Pugliese Carratelli.
The word ἱαρόν, means 'sacred area' and may either consist only of the temple or include a larger area around it. The stone was found about this area, apparently not inside it but at some distance further to the West. This apparently small stone could be moved easily.
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