Caption

IGCyr111360

Trismegistos ID: 738650

Source Description

Repository

Benghazi Museum (Sidi Khrebish excavations), H397.

Support

Stone ball from a series of twenty-three, some in limestone, others of sandstone, amongst which eleven carry letters; nearly half lost (weight 1.6 kg; diameter 0.15).

Layout

Inscribed with one letter, perhaps incomplete.

Letters

Height unknown.

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

ζ̣´

Apparatus

1 Reynolds, 2010  ζ̣´ : Reynolds, 2010  ξ̣´

French translation

Sept.

English translation

Seven.

Italian translation

Sette.

Commentary

See commentary at IGCyr111300.

J.M. Reynolds thought that part of the letter might be lost whence her hesitating about the reading. The better photograph available in high definition in the electronic edition of the article published in 2015 induces to choose the first reading.

Creative Commons Attributions-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

All citation, reuse or distribution of this work must contain a link back to DOI: http://doi.org/10.6092/UNIBO/IGCYRGVCYR and the filename (IGCyr000000 or GVCyr000), as well as the year of consultation.

Images