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IGCyr123800

Trismegistos ID: 738787

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.

Support

White marble block, re-cut for a chancel post in a church with a vertical groove in the then right side (dimensions given as for the inscription 0.24; 0.68;0.235).

Layout

Inscribed on the face in two lines.

Letters

0.025, no serifs; the surface is worn out by the later use and the letters are now very shallow; symmetrical nu, slantering sigma, horse-shoe omega.

Place of Origin

Unknown

Date

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

Findspot

Said, with other chancel posts, to come from Al Marj , ancient Barca, where a Church is known.

Last recorded Location

Observed by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 and again in 1997 in Shahat : near Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

[Ἰ]άσων [---]  (vac. 5) Σ[---] 

Apparatus

French translation

Iasôn  [---] .

English translation

Iason  [---] .

Italian translation

Iason  [---] .

Commentary

As the stone was recut also at left, we cannot known whether line 1 began with the name Iason. Line 2 begins further right, perhaps because its content was shorter or for another reason related to the layout. With such poor rests, it is impossible to trace the type of text that was inscribed here.

About the chancel posts gathered at Cyrene and said to come from Al Marj, see Ward-Perkins-Goodchild-Reynolds, 2003 , pp. 258-260. We took advantage of their text for the description of the stone.

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