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IGCyr124300

Trismegistos ID: 738792

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 25.

Support

Upper right angle of a dark grey block, broken off at left and back; the inferior face is roughly smoothened and perhaps not original; all other faces were carefully smoothened (0.325; 0.21;0.21).

Layout

Inscribed between guidelines in two lines, which are very difficult to read because all faces were scratched.

Letters

l. 1 0.01, lightly and carefully cut, dotted omicron, slanting sigma; l. 2 0.013, somewhat deeper, epsilon with three equal bars, dotted omicron.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

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

Findspot

Presumably found before World War II 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

Not previously published.

Text

[---] Σ[.] Α(vac. 1)ΙΣΘΙ[---]  [---]  τόδε ( vac. ) [---] 

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Commentary

Apart from τόδε ('this') at line 2, the text is quite unclear. The imperative ἴσθι is only a mere possibility and does not help to determine a precise text-type.

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