Caption

IGCyr111340

Trismegistos ID: 738648

Source Description

Repository

Benghazi Museum (Sidi Khrebish excavations), H394.

Support

Stone ball from a series of twenty-three, some in limestone, others of sandstone, amongst which eleven carry letters (weight 3.75 kg; diameter 0.159).

Layout

Inscribed with one letter.

Letters

0.028 (estimated from photograph).

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

ζ´

Apparatus

1 Reynolds, 2010  ζ´ : Reynolds, 2010  η´ (this hesitation depends on the orientation chosen for the reading)

French translation

Sept (ou huit ?).

English translation

Seven (or eight?).

Italian translation

Sette (o otto?).

Commentary

See commentary at IGCyr111300.

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