Perhaps fragmentary law or decree of Cyrene

IGCyr125500

Trismegistos ID: 738804

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 119.

Support

Fragment of the right edge of a white marble block, carefully smoothened also on the right side; broken above, below and at right (0.04; 0.125;0.10).

Layout

Inscribed on the face in two sections.

Letters

0.009, not really apicated; the letters at line a.3 are much pressed together, probably in order to finish the word on that line. Textparts a and b were cut by two different hands, not differing much in shape of letters, but with a higher interval between lines in b than in a. Non-slanting sigma in both, horse-shoe omega, omicron larger at b.1 than at a.3.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps 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 Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Never published before.

Text

section a
- - - - - - [---] ΣΑΙ [---] ΩΙ [---] ΝΟΙΣ ( vac. )
section b
[---] ΡΟΙ [---] Σ - - - - - -

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

لا يمكن ترجمته بشكل جيد

Commentary

Although very fragmentary, this stone should have born at least two different public texts, like in other 'folders' such as IGCyr068200 and followings. However this fragment cannot belong to the same stone.

As to the layout, it is clearly intended so as to have no word cut into parts at the end of lines.

At the end of line a.1, there was probably a prescriptive infinitive.

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