Repository
Cyrene Museum, 603 (fragm a), 850 (fragm. b).
Support
Large stele of white marble, broken in two pieces found separately, later re-used for IGCyr109300; fragment a broken off at top and upper left edge and below, with a circular hole at 0.21 from bottom (0.16; 0.89;0.605); fragment b broken off above and at lower right angle, with edges better preserved than in fragment a (0.16; 0.63;0.65).
Layout
Inscribed in the middle of one narrow side, in 11 lines, beginning at 0.12 above bottom of fragment a and ending at 0.06 below top of fragment b.
Letters
0.01 to 0.012, no serifs; dotted theta, slanting sigma, circular letters moderately smaller.
Place of Origin
Date
First half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Findspot
Fragment b: found not after 1992 in a votive depot South of Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the area of Wadi el Aish .
Last recorded Location
Observed in 1993 and again in 1997 and 2001 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
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 , 114 and 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. 30-34, n. 2 a, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 57.2010, joined by Dobias-Lalou, 2003 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2003, Voyageurs cyrénéens, in H. Duchene (ed.), Voyageurs et Antiquité classique, Dijon, 11-21 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 53.2029 and again Dobias-Lalou-Dubois, 2007 Dobias-Lalou, C., Dubois, L., 2007, La réintégration du citoyen coupable à Sélinonte et à Cyrène, in C. Dobias-Lalou (ed.), Questions de religion cyrénéenne: actes du colloque de Dijon, 21-23 mars 2002, Karthago27, Paris, 145-158 - see in bibliography , pp. 147-148, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 57.2010.
Cf. Brunel, 1984 Brunel, J., 1984, Pour une interprétation de la loi sacrée de Cyrène, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh), ser. 3, 58, 35-44 - see in bibliography , pp. 38-40, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 34.1645; Pugliese Carratelli, 1987 Pugliese Carratelli, G., 1987, ΚΥΡΗΝΑΙΚΑ, in Cirene e i Libyi: Atti del Simposio Internazionale, Roma-Urbino, 13-16 aprile 1981, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)12, 25-32 - see in bibliography , pp. 28-29, 32 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 37.1669 and 1670; Dobias-Lalou, 1996 Dobias-Lalou, C., 1996, Le cinquième commandement de la loi sacrée de Cyrène, in L. Bacchielli, M. Bonanno Aravantinos (eds.), Scritti di Antichità in memoria di Sandro Stucchi, I, Studi Miscellanei29, Roma, 73-78 - see in bibliography , pp. 74-75, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 46.2199; Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 233.
2 Ἡ̣ραίω : Brunel, 1984
Brunel, J., 1984, Pour une interprétation de la loi sacrée de Cyrène, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh), ser. 3, 58, 35-44 - see in bibliography
[Ἡ]ραίω : 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
[.] ραίω
3 [πέμ]π̣τα φθίνοντος : Dobias-Lalou, 1996
Dobias-Lalou, C., 1996, Le cinquième commandement de la loi sacrée de Cyrène, in L. Bacchielli, M. Bonanno Aravantinos (eds.), Scritti di Antichità in memoria di Sandro Stucchi, I, Studi Miscellanei29, Roma, 73-78 - see in bibliography
[πρ]άτα φθίνοντος : 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
[κ]α̣ταφθίνοντος
4
Dobias-Lalou, 1996
Dobias-Lalou, C., 1996, Le cinquième commandement de la loi sacrée de Cyrène, in L. Bacchielli, M. Bonanno Aravantinos (eds.), Scritti di Antichità in memoria di Sandro Stucchi, I, Studi Miscellanei29, Roma, 73-78 - see in bibliography
[Καρ]νήιω : Pugliese Carratelli, 1987
Pugliese Carratelli, G., 1987, ΚΥΡΗΝΑΙΚΑ, in Cirene e i Libyi: Atti del Simposio Internazionale, Roma-Urbino, 13-16 aprile 1981, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)12, 25-32 - see in bibliography
[---] ηιω (suggesting a month name) : Brunel, 1984
Brunel, J., 1984, Pour une interprétation de la loi sacrée de Cyrène, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh), ser. 3, 58, 35-44 - see in bibliography
Δίω : 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
+ΙΩ
5 [δυο]δ̣εκὰς : Dobias-Lalou, 2003
Dobias-Lalou, C., 2003, Voyageurs cyrénéens, in H. Duchene (ed.), Voyageurs et Antiquité classique, Dijon, 11-21 - see in bibliography
[...] δ̣εκὰς : Brunel, 1984
Brunel, J., 1984, Pour une interprétation de la loi sacrée de Cyrène, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh), ser. 3, 58, 35-44 - see in bibliography
δ̣εκὰς : 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
[---]
+ΕΚΑΣ
6
Dobias-Lalou, 1996
Dobias-Lalou, C., 1996, Le cinquième commandement de la loi sacrée de Cyrène, in L. Bacchielli, M. Bonanno Aravantinos (eds.), Scritti di Antichità in memoria di Sandro Stucchi, I, Studi Miscellanei29, Roma, 73-78 - see in bibliography
[Δί]ω̣ : 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
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11
(after this word and on the same line begins line 34 of side ii of IGCyr109300)
Jours d'Akamantia: le 26 Hèraios, le 12 Karneios, le [tantième] Dios et chaque fois que les trésoriers procèdent au sacrifice des prothearia pour l'Arkhègète.
Days of Akamantia: the 26th of Heraios, the 12th of Karneios, the [number]th of Dios and every time the treasurers offer the sacrifice of prothearia to the Archegetes.
Giorni degli Akamantia: il 26 Heraios, il 12 Karneios, il [tale giorno] di Dios e ogni volta che i tesorieri offrono il sacrificio dei prothearia all'Archegetes.
The lettering as well as the display of side b of the stone (in IGCyr109300) show that the latter resulted of a re-use. Why the former inscription was cut in the middle of the narrow side of the stele might be explained at least partly by the hole surmounting those few lines. The border sides were probably not accessible for writing and/or reading if something was attached to the narrow side approximately at middle height.
The link between Ἀκαμαντιάδες and Ἀκαμάντια was explained by Brunel, 1984 Brunel, J., 1984, Pour une interprétation de la loi sacrée de Cyrène, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh), ser. 3, 58, 35-44 - see in bibliography , approved by Pugliese Carratelli, 1987 Pugliese Carratelli, G., 1987, ΚΥΡΗΝΑΙΚΑ, in Cirene e i Libyi: Atti del Simposio Internazionale, Roma-Urbino, 13-16 aprile 1981, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)12, 25-32 - see in bibliography .
Since both fragments are now brought together, some readings proposed before 2003 for the months and dates are no longer valid. What is now clear is that the name of the month at the genitive case was followed by the mention of the day inside it.
About the treasurers' role and the sacrifice called prothearia , see 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. 32. We should add that IGCyr064100, being a dedication by thearoi about to sail to Delphi, is probably related to that ceremony, which would logically have taken place at the port of Cyrene.
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