Private honors (?)
IGCyr117200
Trismegistos ID: 738720
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations, 74-1110.
Support
Upper righthand corner of a large-grained white marble panel, chipped along all edges (0.014; 0.10;0.06).
Layout
Inscribed on the heavily encrusted face.
Letters
ca. 0.015.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps late second or early first century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1974 during the American excavations at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore , in the surface fill of the fifth terrace.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor.
Bibliography
Reynolds, 2012 Reynolds, J.M., 2012, Appendix: the inscriptions on stone and lead, in D. White (ed.), The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, final reports VIII: the sanctuary’s imperial architectural development, conflict with Christianity, and final days, Philadelphia - see in bibliography , n. A.13 (no image) , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 62.1795.6.
Apparatus
2 Reynolds, 2012 Reynolds, J.M., 2012, Appendix: the inscriptions on stone and lead, in D. White (ed.), The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, final reports VIII: the sanctuary’s imperial architectural development, conflict with Christianity, and final days, Philadelphia - see in bibliography [ἀρχισωμ]ατοφύ[λα---] : Reynolds, 2012 Reynolds, J.M., 2012, Appendix: the inscriptions on stone and lead, in D. White (ed.), The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, final reports VIII: the sanctuary’s imperial architectural development, conflict with Christianity, and final days, Philadelphia - see in bibliography [σωμ]ατοφύ[λα---]
French translation
(Un tel fils de) [---] ippos, archisomatophylax [---] .
English translation
(So-and-so son of) [---] ippos, archisomatophylax [---] .
Italian translation
(Il tale figlio di) [---] ippos, archisomatophylax [---] .
Commentary
The personal name at the genitive case at l. 1 seems to be the father's name, probably of the donor.
At line 2, the preserved letters are probably, as suggested by J.M. Reynolds, part of the title 'bodyguard', for which either σωματοφύλαξ or the upper rank ἀρχισωματοφύλαξ would be possible (the latter already attested at IGCyr015500). If so, the inscription might mention honors for a Lagid officer or emanating from him. Anyhow it would reinforce the feeling that the inscription dates before the end of the Hellenistic monarchy in Cyrenaica.
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