Royal letters (?)

IGCyr131400

Trismegistos ID: 738861

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 2998.

Support

Very small fragment of a white marble block, broken off on all sides, but at left (0.035; 0.085;0.045).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.007, carefully cut with serifs; non-slanting sigma, phi with a rather large oval loop.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1982 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

- - - - - - ΕΤ[---]  (vac. 1 line) ἀφ᾿ οὗ [---] -ΤΩΜ [---]  ΜΕΛ[---]  5ΟΛ[---]  - - - - - -

Apparatus

1 ΕΤ : ἔτ[ι] : (or) ἐτ[ιμ]

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Commentary

This looks like a dossier bearing at least two documents, of which we would have the end of the first and the beginning of the second. The beginning of the second seems to recall past events 'Since the time when…'. Hence the idea of a royal letter. But this should remain highly hypothetical.

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