Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
Fragment of a white marble block broken off at left and right with a shallow (0.02) circular or oval depression on top, which is not so well smoothened as the rest (perhaps for laying a basin): 0.11; 0.058;0.10.
Layout
Inscribed on front face near the upper edge.
Letters
0.025; letters with slightly thickening ends, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C.
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 , p. 44, n. 10, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 57.2009.
Intraduisible.
Not usefully translatable.
Intraducibile.
غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد
The placement of the shallow curve on upper side seems to show that not much is lost at right end, so that we might have the end of an artist's signature ἠργάσ(σ)ατο like that of IGCyr019000. But this should not be pushed too far ahead because of the very lacunar condition of the fragment.
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