Repository
Cyrene Museum, 470.
Support
Three fragments pasted together of a white marble block, broken off at left, above and below (0.14; 0.17;0.105).
Layout
Inscribed on the face by different hands.
Letters
Hand 1 0.012 only omega: the rest of the line may have had taller letters.
Letters
Hand 2 0.022 serifs; non-slanting sigma.
Letters
Hand 3 0.017 serifs; non-slanting sigma, widely open upsilon.
Letters
Hand 4 0.015 serifs; xi with central hasta.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Seen in 1977 by C. Dobias-Lalou at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Not previously published.
[---] [---] fils de [---] os, [---] fils de [---] klès, [---] fils de Timagénès, [---] fils d'Ammônios, [---] fils de [---] ès, [---] fils de [---] oxénos, [---] .
[---] [---] son of [---] os, [---] son of [---] kles, [---] son of Timagenes, [---] son of Ammonios, [---] son of [---] es, [---] son of [---] oxenos, [---] .
[---] [---] figlio di [---] os, [---] figlio di [---] kles, [---] figlio di Timagenes, [---] figlio di Ammonios, [---] figlio di [---] es, [---] figlio di [---] oxenos, [---] .
Because of the bad condition of the stone, the differences between hands are only clear for ll. 1-4, but ll. 5-6 may well have also been cut each independantly. Nevertheless, this inscription is typologically similar to other lists of priests, whose names were chosen to be added successively as a form of honors on steles erected both in the sanctuary of Apollo and on the agora (see Marengo, 1996 Marengo, S.M., 1996, Per un’interpretazione delle liste sacerdotali di Cirene, in L. Bacchielli, M. Bonanno Aravantinos (eds.), Scritti di Antichità in memoria di Sandro Stucchi, I, Studi Miscellanei29, Roma, 219-226 - see in bibliography ).
No convincing prosopographical relations may be established for the men mentioned here because we have only fathers' names.
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