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 pleiades; HGL , 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
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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