Repository
Cyrene Museum, 96+98.
Support
Two non-adjacent fragments of a greymarble circular basin, preserved from rim to bottom (fragment a: 0.165; 0.095; -; fragment b: 0.075; 0.075; -).
Layout
Inscribed on the rim, to be read from outside.
Letters
0.035; no serifs, broadly open alpha.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably first half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1979 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C.Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat , Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Not previously published.
[---] dîme (?) [---]
[---] tithe (?) [---]
[---] decima (?) [---]
From the series of circular basins, it seems reasonable to guess that the word for 'tithe' should be restored in fragment a; the iota is probably the beginning of a personal name.
The fragments are not exactly adjacent, but the space between letters allows to place fragment b near the right end of fragment a so that the isolated alpha of fragment b would follow the iota of fragment b. If so, we would have the beginning of a personal name such as Ἰάσις or Ἰάσων, both of which are very frequent in Cyrenaica. This possibility however should not be pushed too far ahead.
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