Names

IGCyr131800

Trismegistos ID: 738865

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, inventory number missing.

Support

Small fragment of a white marble block, broken off on all sides (0.20; 0.08;0.015).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.02 wit small serifs; smaller circular letters, no typical shape.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps third or second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1977 at Cyrene : findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

- - - - - - [---?]  Δ̣ιογέν [---]  [---?]  [---] ανο[---]  [---?]  - - - - - -

Apparatus

2 [---] ανο[---]  : [Στέφ]ανο[ς] : (or) [Αἰγλ]άνο[ρος]

French translation

Intraduisible (voir commentaire).

English translation

Not usefully translatable (see commentary).

Italian translation

Intraducibile (vedi commento).

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد (انظر التعليق على النقش)

Commentary

Two possible restorations are given in the apparatus for line 2. Depending on the case (nominative or genitive) of that line, the name Diogenes at line 1 would be at the nominative or genitive. In the present condition of the stone, this cannot be decided.

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