Names

IGCyr132400

Trismegistos ID: 738871

Source Description

Support

Part of a local limestone block, re-cut at left, above and below for re-use in a Roman wall (dimensions not measured).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.01-0.03, perhaps by different hands; slanting sigma.

Place of Origin

Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia .

Date

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

Findspot

Found in 2010 by the French Mission in the Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia : during the excavations of the area of Kallikrateia Rock , re-used in the Northern wall of the Roman portico in front of a cave, below the rock north-westward.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 in situ.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

- - - - - -? [---]  +ς [---] [ί]π̣πω̣ [---] ις - - - - - -?

Apparatus

French translation

 [---] s fils de  [---] ippos,  [---] is  [---] .

English translation

 [---] s son of  [---] ippos,  [---] is  [---] .

Italian translation

 [---] s figlio di  [---] ippos,  [---] is  [---] .

Commentary

This very fragmentary block is not very rewarding. The very tender local limestone, exposed to the action of wind and salt, is a very bad support for inscriptions. The fist letter at line 1 was perhaps a much eroded eta. The third line may have been added later on, as its sigma differs notably from that at line 1.

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