Unclear

IGCyr114100

Trismegistos ID: 105888

Source Description

Support

Fragmentary marble panel, broken on all sides but at bottom (0.09; 0.07;0.015).

Layout

Inscribed on front face.

Letters

0.02; poorly cut, slight serifs, non-slanting sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Bought by H.F. De Cou in 1911 from an Arab at Cyrene : exact findspot unknown.

Present Location

Seems to be lost.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Robinson, 1913 , n. 1 (ph.). Cf. Marengo, 1991 , p. 365, footnote 340.

Text

[---] [τὸ]μ βασ[ιλῆ---]  [---] ΑΔΩΜ[---] 

Apparatus

1 [τὸ]μ βασ[ιλῆ] : Marengo, 1991  [---] μ βασ[---]  : Robinson, 1913  Μ(- - -) Βασ[---] 

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

English translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

This poor fragment is far from clear. At l. 1, there is no punct which might support Robinson's interpretation of a Latin praenomen Μ(ᾶρκος) preceding a name such as Βάσσος. Marengo's suggestion of the word for 'king' is much more convincing, although the rest is still unclear.

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