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IGCyr131200

Trismegistos ID: 738859

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 1877.

Support

Fragment of a white marble panel, broken off at left, above and below (0.16; 0.195;0.045).

Layout

Inscribed on the face with a vacat between name and father's name, forming columns.

Letters

0.01-0.013 very carefully cut, with large serifs and varying spaces between letters, so that the total width is the same at each line; slightly smaller circular letters; xi with central hasta; with very small loop; large and non-slanting sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Beginning of first century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1993 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1993 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

- - - - - - [---]  Ἀπολλ[c. 6]  [---]  Θευδ[c. 3]  [---]  Ἁγησισ[τράτω ---]  Εἰρηνα[ίω] 5 [---]  Ἀριστοβού̣[λω ---]  Σωδάμω [---]  Πείσιος [---]  Θευδότω [---]  Δεξίλα 10 [---]   [c. 4 - 5]ί̣ω̣ - - - - - -

Apparatus

French translation

 [---] ,  [---]  fils d'Apoll [---] ,  [---]  fils de Theud [---] ,  [---]  fils d' Hagèsistratos,  [---]  fils d'Eirènaios,  [---]  fils d'Aristoboulos,  [---]  fils de Sôdamos,  [---]  fils de Peisis,  [---]  fils de Theudotos,  [---]  fils de Dexilas,  [---]  fils de  [---] ios,  [---] .

English translation

 [---] ,  [---]  son of Apoll [---] ,  [---]  son of Theud [---] ,  [---]  son of Hagesistratos,  [---]  son of Eirenaios,  [---]  son of Aristoboulos,  [---]  son of Sodamos,  [---]  son of Peisis,  [---]  son of Theudotos,  [---]  son of Dexilas,  [---]  son of  [---] ios,  [---] .

Italian translation

 [---] ,  [---]  figlio di Apoll [---] ,  [---]  figlio di Theud [---] ,  [---]  figlio di Hagesistratos,  [---]  figlio di Eirenaios,  [---]  figlio di Aristoboulos,  [---]  figlio di Sodamos,  [---]  figlio di Peisis,  [---]  figlio di Theudotos,  [---]  figlio di Dexilas,  [---]  figlio di  [---] ios,  [---] .

Commentary

This might belong to a list of ephebes dedicating to Hermes and Heracles the names of their officers. But there are also other possibilities.

All names are already attested at Cyrene, but for Δεξίλας, a semantic variant of the already attested Δεξίδαμος.

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