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IGCyr125300

Trismegistos ID: 738802

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 115.

Support

Small fragment of a white marble block, broken off at right and left and below; probably re-cut at back and top so as to form a protruding part on top, separated from face and back through two hollow mouldings (0.105; 0.11;0.05).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.022 serifs; the oblique strokes of lambda and alpha are very thin, contrasting with the deep cut of the horizontal bars of epsilon; the latter has a longer lower bar.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

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

Findspot

Probably found before World War II at Cyrene : exact findspot unknown.

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

[---]  τ [---]  [---] ΕΛΑ[---]  - - - - - -

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

لا يمكن ترجمته بشكل جيد

Commentary

From those poor rests, we can only guess that line 2 might be part of a personal name such as Ἀρχέλας or Χαιρέλας, but none is hitherto attested in Cyrenaica and it would be hazardous to push this forward.

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