Dedication of an image of Apollo Nomios by the nomophylakes

Bibliography

Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography , n. 3 (ll. 3-13) and SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , p. 368 (ll. 1-4); SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 20.736; Peek, 1972 Peek, W., 1972, Griechische Versinschriften aus der Cyrenaica aus Mauretanien und Numidien, Abhandlungen der sächsichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, phil.-hist. Klasse, 63.4, Berlin - see in bibliography , n. 6.

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1 [Ἐφ᾿ ἱαρεῦς] : Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography , SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography  [---]  || SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography  [---] «ίω» : SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography  [---] 〚ω〛 (J.M. Reynolds' reading)

3 SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography  [---] [ω]νος : Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography  [---] νος

4 Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography  [---] δώρω : SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography  [---] [ο]δώρω

5 SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography  [---] [ω]νος : Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography  [---] νος

8 [Χαι]ρ̣άδα : Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography  [---] άδα

10 SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography  [Ἡφ]αιστίωνος (J.M. Reynolds' reading) : Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography  [---] αγ̣τίωνος : SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography  Ἀπ̣ίωνος (Pugliese Carratelli hesitantly from ΑΤΤΙΩΝΟΣ on Oliverio's copy)

12 Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography , - see in bibliography  [---] [περικα]λ̣λ̣ὲ̣ς (Pugliese Carratelli's suggestion) : SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography  [---]  [---] [ἄ]δαες (Oliverio's suggestion) : Peek, 1972 Peek, W., 1972, Griechische Versinschriften aus der Cyrenaica aus Mauretanien und Numidien, Abhandlungen der sächsichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, phil.-hist. Klasse, 63.4, Berlin - see in bibliography  [Φοίβου Ἀπόλλωνος Νομίου περικ]κ̣α̣λ̣λ̣ὲ̣ς

13 Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography  [---] [νό]μων φύλακ̣[..]  : SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography  [---] [νό]μων φύλακ̣[ες] : Peek, 1972 Peek, W., 1972, Griechische Versinschriften aus der Cyrenaica aus Mauretanien und Numidien, Abhandlungen der sächsichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, phil.-hist. Klasse, 63.4, Berlin - see in bibliography  [ἄνθεσαν εὐξάμενοι τῆιδε νο]μων φύλακ̣[ες]

French translation

[Sous le prêtre Untel] fils de  [---] ios, [Untel] fils de  [---] khos, [Untel] fils de  [---] ôn, [Untel] fils de  [---] dôros, [Untel] fils de  [---] ôn, [Untel] fils de  [---] los, [Untel] fils de  [---] klès, [Untel] fils de Khairadas, [Untel] fils d'Agatharkhos, [Untel] fils d'Ephaistiôn (ont consacré l'image) [d'Apollon] Nomios.

 [---]  la magnifique statue  [---]  les gardiens des lois.

English translation

[Under priest So-and-so] son of  [---] ios, [So-and-so] son of  [---] chos, [So-and-so] son of  [---] on, [So-and-so] son of  [---] doros, [So-and-so] son of  [---] on, [So-and-so] son of  [---] los, [So-and-so] son of  [---] kles, [So-and-so] son of Chairadas, [So-and-so] son of Agatharchos, [So-and-so] son of Ephaistion (dedicated the image) [of Apollo] Nomios.

 [---]  the very beautiful statue  [---]  the guardians of the laws.

Italian translation

[Nel sacerdozio del tale] figlio di  [---] ios, [il tale] figlio di  [---] chos, [il tale] figlio di  [---] on, [il tale] figlio di  [---] doros, [il tale] figlio di  [---] on, [il tale] figlio di  [---] los, [il tale] figlio di  [---] kles, [il tale] figlio di Chairadas, [il tale] figlio di Agatharchos, [il tale] figlio di Ephaistion (hanno dedicato l'immagine) [di Apollo] Nomios.

 [---]  la magnifica statua  [---]  i custodi delle leggi.

Commentary

The first publication was given in 1961 from †Oliverio's ready-to-publish manuscript by Pugliese Carratelli, who a few months later added lines 1-3 after examination of Oliverio's copy. This addition was ignored by J.M. Reynolds, who provided to the editor of SEG the additional lines from her own autopsy of the stone. The date is also her suggestion.

For other dedications of divine images made by the nomophylakes in their own building, see IRCyr C.94, IRCyr C.95, IRCyr C.96, IRCyr C.97, IRCyr C.98 and IRCyr C.99. This is the only one in the series with a verse appendix, which makes certain that the dedication was made by the nomophylakes , whose title is in fact lost. Another one (IRCyr C.94) is also the dedication of an image of Apollo Nomios, explicitely intended in relation with the office of 'guardian of the laws' of the dedicant. It should be stressed that Callimachus (Ap. 47-54) does mention the same epithet for Apollo, but in the quite different context and meaning, as a pastoral god (a νομεύς). More at IRCyr C.94 and Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 217.

One of the points is the restoration of the heading. As it seems from the photograph, the now lost fragment had the top of the panel. We should thus exclude a formulation strictly analogous with that of most other items beginning with 'The nomophylakes under priest So-and-so', which takes two lines and does not allow for the actual ending of our l. 1. The most plausible seems that the word nomophylakes was absent from a shorter heading, explicited in the verse as its climax. The stone-cutter might have begun with the traditional formulation and changed his mind, which would explain the rasura at line 1. If we allow this only line for the mention of the eponymous priest, we should have then nine nomophylakes (anyway not ten, as Peek wrote). Nine is the exact amount prescribed in Ptolemy's diagramma (IGCyr010800, l. 32), and they actually amount to nine in IRCyr C.96, whereas in other dedications only six or seven are mentioned. Analogous changes occurred with the ephori during the late Hellenistic and early Roman times.

This panel, quite similar to the others of the series, was intented for insertion on a wall under an image, either painted or sculpted, or on a statue base. At l. 12 the word ἄγαλμα in the traditional formula with περικαλλές closing a verse-line should have the traditional Homeric meaning 'pleasant gift'. However it has probably also the later and more restricted meaning of 'statue of a divinity'. In the above text, the mention of a 'statue' was certainly subaudible, as in most dedications.

Although Peek's restorations surely reflect the general meaning, we do not consider them as the only possibility. In that view, we leave open the case of the last word, which might also be for example the genitive.

The two names at ll. 9-10 were erroneously registered as from the fourth century B.C. in Fraser-Matthews, 1987 Fraser, P.M., Matthews, E. (eds.), 1987, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, I: The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, Cyrenaica, Oxford - see in bibliography , pp. 2, 207.

Metrical analysis: two hexametric endings belonging respectively to the hexameter and the pentameter of an elegiac couplet.

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