Repository
Louvre Museum, Ma 1755.
Support
White marble rectangular block, chipped off at right and left and mainly below (0.20; 0.10;0.043).
Layout
Inscribed in four lines on front face.
Letters
0.01 (omicron) to 0.02 (iota); carefully cut, no serifs, alpha with low bar, slightly slanting mu, dissymmetrical nu, xi with central vertical stroke, small omicron, slanting sigma, omega with large tangential bar below.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of the fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found or bought by Vattier de Bourville between 1844 and 1846 at Euesperides pleiades; HGL .
Last recorded Location
Observed by C. Dobias-Lalou and H. Berthelot in 2011 in Paris : Louvre Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Letronne, 1848-1849 Letronne, A.-J., 1848-1849, Deux nouvelles inscriptions grecques de la Cyrénaïque, Revue Archéologique5.2, 432-433 - see in bibliography , n. i, whence CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography , vol. IV, p. 12415362b; Froehner, 1865 Froehner, W., 1865, Les inscriptions grecques interprétées (Département des Antiques et de la Sculpture moderne), Paris - see in bibliography , n. 4 Reynolds, 1978 Reynolds, J.M., 1978, Inscriptions, in J.A. Lloyd (ed.), Excavations at Sidi Khrebish Benghazi (Berenice), I, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)Suppl. 5, 233-254 - see in bibliography , n 14. Cf. Serres-Jacquart, 2001 Serres-Jacquart, T., 2001, Joseph Vattier de Bourville (1812-1854): notes sur un explorateur de la Cyrénaïque, Journal des Savants (JS)2001, 393-429 - see in bibliography , p. 416, fig. 11; Hamiaux-Zagdoun, 2004 Hamiaux, M., Zagdoun, M.-A., 2004, I. Récolement des marbres envoyés par Vattier de Bourville au Louvre en 1852. II. Marbres Vattier de Bourville : fiches d'entrée Mn rédigées au crayon par Longpérier, Journal des Savants (JS), 124-128 - see in bibliography .
Praxikratès fils d'Epameinôn (a consacré ce monument) à Apollon au titre de la dîme.
Praxikrates son of Epameinon (dedicated this monument) to Apollo as a tithe.
Praxikrates figlio di Epameinon (ha dedicato questo monumento) ad Apollo come decima.
The number 5362b given to the stone in the Addenda of CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography at volume IV had already been given in Volume III to the inscription which is our GVCyr05.
The stone was thought lost by Reynolds who included it into the collection of Berenike; however, the lettering shows clearly that it antedates the foundation of Berenike and should come from Euesperides. About the present condition of the stone, a paper by C. Dobias-Lalou has been given to press for Bulletin de la Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France, year 2012, unfortunately not yet published.
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