Caption

IGCyr111320

Trismegistos ID: 738646

Source Description

Repository

Benghazi Museum (Sidi Khrebish excavations), H416.

Support

Stone ball from a series of twenty-three, some in limestone, others of sandstone, amongst which eleven carry letters; chipped (weight 2.85 kg; diameter 0.15).

Layout

Inscribed with one letter.

Letters

0.03.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Between 246 and end of second century B.C. (context)

Findspot

Found during the excavations (1973-1975) conducted by J. Lloyd at Berenike : in the area of Hellenistic city walls .

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editors.

Bibliography

Reynolds, 2010 , pp. 226-228, , whence SEG , 60.1832. Cf. Lloyd-Kenrick, 2014 , p. 138, fig. 17; Reynolds-Kenrick, 2015 , pp. 76-81, fig. 2.

Text

γ´

Apparatus

1 Reynolds, 2010  γ´ : Reynolds, 2010  π´

French translation

Trois.

English translation

Three.

Italian translation

Tre.

Commentary

See commentary at IGCyr111300.

The better photograph provided in publications of 2014 and 2015 induces to chose the reading for '3', although the ball seems to be chipped off after it and might have hosted one more letter.

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