Sacred law (?)

IGCyr109400

Trismegistos ID: 738623

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 4575.

Support

Lower right corner of a white marble panel, slightly tapering (0.115; 0.155;0.03 to 0.003).

Layout

Inscribed on front face.

Letters

0.009 to 0.012; shorter right stroke of nu, slanting mu and sigma, xi with three horizontal bars.

Place of Origin

Cyrene .

Date

Late fourth or early third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1993 in a votive depot South of Cyrene : in the area of Wadi el Aish .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1993 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Mohamed-Reynolds-Dobias-Lalou, 2007 , pp. 45-46, n. 12, whence SEG , 57.2012.

Text

- - - - - - [---] ΜΗ[---]  [---]  [ἄλ]λη δὲ ΠΟ[---]  [---]  [πρί?]ασθαι βάβα----] · [αἰ] δέ κα πωλῆι 5 [---] ς ἐξ ἀλλοτρί-[ων ---] λ̣οι τένται ἀλ----] σω ἄτιμα Κ- [---] ω̣ρια.(vac.) (vac. 1 line)

Apparatus

7 Mohamed-Reynolds-Dobias-Lalou, 2007  ἄτιμα Κ : ἁ τιμὰ κ´ (also possible)

French translation

 [---]  et ailleurs  [---]  acheter des objets profanes  [---] ; et si l'on vend  [---] , pris sur les biens d'autrui  [---]  [si] d'autres sont  [---]  sans valeur  [---] .

English translation

 [---]  and elsewhere  [---]  to buy secular objects  [---] ; and if one sells  [---]  from someone else's belongings  [---]  [if] others are  [---]  valueless  [---] .

Italian translation

 [---]  e altrove  [---]  comprare oggetti profani  [---] ; e se uno vende  [---]  dai beni altrui  [---]  [se] altri sono  [---]  senza valore  [---] .

Commentary

For discussion of these poor rests containing prescriptions, see at Mohamed-Reynolds-Dobias-Lalou, 2007 .

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