Repository
Cyrene Museum, 4572.
Support
Lower right corner of a white marble panel broken off at left and above; (0.125; 0.23;0.078); the back is not so well smoothened as the other sides, either because this side would have been hidden or because the stone has been recut.
Layout
Inscribed on front face (probably with axial layout, for the space between letter varies at each line).
Letters
0.015 at ll. 1-8, 0.01 at ll. 9-11.
Place of Origin
Date
Second half of fourth 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. 40-41, n. 6, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 57.2008. Cf. Dobias-Lalou, 2016 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2016, Sur les listes d'anthroponymes de Cyrène à l'époque hellénistique, Studi Ellenistici30, 239-258 - see in bibliography , pp. 246-247.
11 [Δι]οφάντω̣ : 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 [---] οφάντω̣
[---] [Untel fils de] [---] os, [Untel fils de] [---] stratos, [Untel fils de] [---] arkhos, [Untel fils de] [---] arkhos, [Untel fils de] Haniokhos, [Untel fils de] [---] okréôn , [Untel fils de] [---] makhos, [Untel fils de] Theukhrestos, (vac. 1 line) [Untel fils d'] Aleximakhos, [Untel fils de] [---] makhos, [Untel fils de] Diophantos.
[---] [So-and-so son of] [---] os, [So-and-so son of] [---] stratos, [So-and-so son of] [---] archos, [So-and-so son of] [---] archos, [So-and-so son of] Haniochos, [So-and-so son of] [---] okreon , [So-and-so son of] [---] machos, [So-and-so son of] Theuchrestos, (vac. 1 line) [So-and-so son of] Aleximachos, [So-and-so son of] [---] machos, [So-and-so son of] Diophantos.
[---] [il tale figlio di] [---] os, [il tale figlio di] [---] stratos, [il tale figlio di] [---] archos, [il tale figlio di] [---] archos, [il tale figlio di] Haniochos, [il tale figlio di] [---] okreon , [il tale figlio di] [---] machos, [il tale figlio di] Theuchrestos, (vac. 1 line) [il tale figlio di] Aleximachos, [il tale figlio di] [---] machos, [il tale figlio di] Diophantos.
In lettering and layout, this list very much resembles the long lists of military officers (IGCyr014800, IGCyr015100, IGCyr084000 and IGCyr091000). This gives at least a clue for the date. As to the content, C. Dobias-Lalou tried, on behalf of the great similarity, to join this fragment to IGCyr084000. The issue was not successful.
No heading mentioning an office is preserved here. The three lines at bottom are written in smaller and tighter letters, as if the space was too small to include them. It is thus possible that what appears to be a vacat above them bore in fact a heading, now lost.
In spite of the lack of decisive proofs this list may be considered a list of soldiers with rather good confidence.
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