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
Date
Late fourth or early third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1993 in a votive depot South of Cyrene pleiades; HGL : 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).
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. 45-46, n. 12, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 57.2012.
7 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 ἄτιμα Κ : ἁ τιμὰ κ´ (also possible)
[---] et ailleurs [---] acheter des objets profanes [---] ; et si l'on vend [---] , pris sur les biens d'autrui [---] [si] d'autres sont [---] sans valeur [---] .
[---] and elsewhere [---] to buy secular objects [---] ; and if one sells [---] from someone else's belongings [---] [if] others are [---] valueless [---] .
[---] e altrove [---] comprare oggetti profani [---] ; e se uno vende [---] dai beni altrui [---] [se] altri sono [---] senza valore [---] .
For discussion of these poor rests containing prescriptions, 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 .
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