Tithe
IGCyr118200
Trismegistos ID: 738730
Source Description
Support
Rectangular block of limestone, re-used in a later building and partly hidden (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the face, at least on one line near the lower edge; other lines may have been cut on the hidden part.
Letters
Dimensions of letters unknown; very careful letters, not deeply cut, closely to one another; no serifs; epsilon with unequal bars, nu probably symmetrical.
Place of Origin
Date
Perhaps first half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found by C. Parisi Presicce between 2000 and 2002 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : re-used in the Sanctuary of Apollo , in the so-called Agora of the Gods , just West of the Strategeion .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor (CDL).
Bibliography
Parisi Presicce, 2007 Parisi Presicce, C. , 2007, L'agorà degli dei nel santuario di Apollo a Cirene. Resoconto sommario di un decennio di scavi (1995-2005), in E. Catani, A. Di Vita, Archeologia italiana in Libia: esperienze a confronto. Atti dell'incontro di studio Macerata- Fermo, 28-30 marzo 2003, Macerata, 195-210 - see in bibliography , pp. 199-200 and fig. 7.
Apparatus
1 (vac. 1) Δεκάταν (from photograph) : Parisi Presicce, 2007 Parisi Presicce, C. , 2007, L'agorà degli dei nel santuario di Apollo a Cirene. Resoconto sommario di un decennio di scavi (1995-2005), in E. Catani, A. Di Vita, Archeologia italiana in Libia: esperienze a confronto. Atti dell'incontro di studio Macerata- Fermo, 28-30 marzo 2003, Macerata, 195-210 - see in bibliography [---] δεκάταν
French translation
Dîme [---?] .
English translation
Tithe [---?] .
French translation
Decima [---?] .
Commentary
It is impossible to restore the ancient display only from the quick description of Parisi Presicce. However, the good photograph allows to suspect a large monumental dedication, either made of several blocks or later re-cut. The verb ἀνέθηκε/αν might remain subaudible, but at least a personal name as subject would have stood in the hidden (or lost?) part. The date proposed here seems a plausible guess.
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