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IGCyr119900

Trismegistos ID: 738748

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 222.

Support

Fragment of a white marble circular basin, inner bottom carefully pricked (0.065; -;0.105).

Layout

Inscribed on the rim (high 0.035).

Letters

0.022; no serifs, nu with thinner first hasta.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps first half of third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1979 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 and again in 2010 in Shahat , Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone.

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

[---] ΑΝ[---] 

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

Those two letters might belong to the word δεκάταν, 'tithe', or to ἀνέθηκε, 'dedicated', but there are a lot of other possibilities.

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