Name

IGCyr125900

Trismegistos ID: 738808

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 171.

Support

Upper right angle of a white marble block, broken off at left, back and below, with traces of attachment of an object at the fore right angle of the upper face (0.125; 0.045;0.125).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.02 (estimated for nu), no serifs; broad nu, rather large round letter(s).

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1979 presumably 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 previoulsy published.

Text

[---] γνώτω - - - - - -

Apparatus

French translation

 [---]  de  [---] gnôtos  [---] .

English translation

 [---]  of  [---] gnotos  [---] .

Italian translation

 [---]  di  [---] gnotos  [---] .

Commentary

Although both circular letters are uncomplete, the phonetic context helps to interpret the first one as an omega and the second one, at the end of the line should also be an omega for a genitive ending. We get thus a personal name in -γνωτος. Two such compounds are known at Cyrene: Καλλίγνωτος and Πολύγνωτος, the latter, being the father's name of a probable priest in the third century B.C. (IGCyr109300, I.31). But it would be hazardous to suggest a link with one of them.

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