Tithe

IGCyr120600

Trismegistos ID: 738755

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 100.

Support

Fragment of a white marble circular basin, (wide 0.13; deep 0.09).

Layout

Inscribed or rather scratched on the rim, which is partly broken off below (0.11; 0.032;), to be read from outside.

Letters

0.02; awkwardly and superficially cut with irregular interval.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Plausibly third or second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1979 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

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

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Text

Δεκά[τα ---] 

Apparatus

French translation

Dîme  [---] .

English translation

Tithe  [---] .

Italian translation

Decima  [---] .

Commentary

In contrast with all the other inscriptions on the rim of basins (IGCyr108900 to IGCyr120500), which were cut skillfully in workshops, this one looks rather like a graffito. The mention of the tithe might either have been added when the offering was already placed in the sanctuary or be the result of a later appropriation.

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