Repository
Benghazi Museum (Sidi Khrebish excavations), H398.
Support
Stone ball from a series of twenty-three, some in limestone, others of sandstone, amongst which eleven carry letters; chipped (weight 3.3 kg; diameter 0.15).
Layout
Inscribed with one letter.
Letters
0.05.
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 pleiades; HGL : in the area of Hellenistic city walls .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editors.
Reynolds, 2010 Reynolds, J.M., 2010, Inscribed missiles found at Sidi Khrebish Benghazi, in M. Luni (ed.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'Antichità, Monografie di archeologia libica30, Cirene Atene d'Africa: attività delle missioni archeologiche internazionali a Cirene e in Cirenaica3, Roma, 225-228 - see in bibliography , pp. 226-228, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 60.1832. Cf. Lloyd-Kenrick, 2014 Lloyd, J., Kenrick, Ph., 2014, Excavations at Sidi Khrebish, Benghazi, 1971-75: the small finds, Libyan Studies (LS), 45, 97-150 - see in bibliography , p. 138; Reynolds-Kenrick, 2015 Reynolds, J.M., Kenrick, P., 2015, The epigraphy of Sidi Khrebish, Benghazi (Berenice): an update, Libyan Studies (LibStud), 46, 75-101 - see in bibliography , pp. 76-81.
1 Reynolds, 2010 Reynolds, J.M., 2010, Inscribed missiles found at Sidi Khrebish Benghazi, in M. Luni (ed.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'Antichità, Monografie di archeologia libica30, Cirene Atene d'Africa: attività delle missioni archeologiche internazionali a Cirene e in Cirenaica3, Roma, 225-228 - see in bibliography ζ̣´ : Reynolds, 2010 Reynolds, J.M., 2010, Inscribed missiles found at Sidi Khrebish Benghazi, in M. Luni (ed.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'Antichità, Monografie di archeologia libica30, Cirene Atene d'Africa: attività delle missioni archeologiche internazionali a Cirene e in Cirenaica3, Roma, 225-228 - see in bibliography ν̣´ (this hesitation presumably depends partly on the orientation chosen for the reading)
Sept (ou cinquante ?).
Seven (or fifty ?).
Sette (o cinquanta ?).
See commentary at IGCyr111300.
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