Tithe

IGCyr124600

Trismegistos ID: 738795

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 50.

Support

White marble panel, broken off at all sides but below (0.155; 0.115; -); at back, a band of anathyrosis (wide 0.045).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.032; slight serifs.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Probably third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Presumably before 1938 at Cyrene , while excavating the Fountain of Apollo .

Last recorded Location

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

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

[---]  α ι ω [---]  [---]  δεκά[ταν ---] 

Apparatus

French translation

 [---]  dîme.

English translation

 [---]  tithe.

English translation

 [---]  decima.

Commentary

At line 1, the orientation of the serif of the third letter allows only for a Ξ or a Ω; so the most plausible reading of the segment seems to be either -αιω or -ατω.

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