Repository
Cyrene Museum, 4673.
Support
Fragment of a white marble block broken away at right and left; above a plinth are traces of sculpture: a footstool with its four legs and on it a set of bare toes on a sole and the scar of a second foot; at its left side, some vestiges of draperies (0.29; 0.13;0.14).
Layout
Inscribed in three lines on front face of the plinth. (0.20; 0.085;).
Letters
0.015; no serifs, broad alpha, symmetrical nu, xi with central vertical stroke, smaller omicron, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Date
First half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1993 in a votive depot South of Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the area of the Wadi el Aish ..
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1993 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Mohamed-Reynolds-Dobias-Lalou, 2007 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., Dobias-Lalou, C., 2007, Recently discovered inscriptions at Cyrene, in L. Gasperini, S. Marengo (eds.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'antichità: atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Roma-Frascati, 18-21 dicembre 1996, Ichnia9, Tivoli, 17-48 - see in bibliography , pp. 37-38, n. 4, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 57.2006.
[---] oxenos fils de Niki [---] , [---?] [Untel] fils d'Aiglanôr, Kleu [---] [fils d'Untel] [---?] , tandis qu'ils exerçaient la stratégie, [ont consacré?] (ce monument) [à telle divinité?].
[---] oxenos son of Niki [---] , [---?] [So-and-so] son of Aiglanor, Kleu [---] [son of So-and-so] [---?] , while being strategoi , [dedicated?] (this monument) [to such and such deity?].
[---] oxenos figlio di Niki [---] , [---?] [il tale] figlio di Aiglanor, Kleu [---] [figlio del tale] [---?] , quando erano strategi, [hanno dedicato?] (questo monumento) [alla tale divinità?].
The layout of the expected elements of this fragmentary dedication is not clear. However, we are able to guess that lines 1-2 had only names, whereas line 3 had the dedication formula, including at least a god's name and/or the verb of dedication ἀνέθηκε. Whether there was a fifth dedicant mentioned with name and father's name across lines 1-2 remains unclear. For this amount see discussion at Mohamed-Reynolds-Dobias-Lalou, 2007 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., Dobias-Lalou, C., 2007, Recently discovered inscriptions at Cyrene, in L. Gasperini, S. Marengo (eds.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'antichità: atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Roma-Frascati, 18-21 dicembre 1996, Ichnia9, Tivoli, 17-48 - see in bibliography , p. 24.
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