Repository
Cyrene Museum, 282.
Support
Upper fragment of a white marble block, broken off at right, left, back and below (0.155; 0.055;0.03).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.012 with slight serifs; epsilon with short central bar.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably first half of third century. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1976 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 and again 1977 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Not previoulsy published.
[---] d'Elaiitas [---] a consacré [---] .
[---] of Elaiitas [---] dedicated [---] .
[---] di Elaiitas [---] ha dedicato [---] .
The fragmentary condition of the stone does not provide a clear view. On one side, Elaiitas is the name of two priests of Apollo, one in the second half of the fourth century (IGCyr080500), the other at the end of the third or the beginning of the second century B.C. (IGCyr096700, l. 4) and this would induce to restore ἱ[αρεῦς] or ἱ[αριτεύοντος] 'being priest' at line 1. But this inscription does not seem to be contemporary with either of them. Its lettering recalls rather IGCyr102000, where an Elaiitas is mentioned but not said to be a priest. So the end of our line 1 should remain unrestored.
About the name Ἐλαιίτας, see Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 265.
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