Support
Support unknown and material unknown.
Layout
Inscribed.
Letters
Height unknown; some small serifs; lunate epsilon and sigma, cursive omega.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
First to third century A.D. (lettering)
Findspot
First copied probably by Granger in 1730 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : perhaps Sanctuary of Apollo (see commentary).
Present Location
Seems to be lost.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Fränkel, 1903 Fränkel, M., 1903, Beiträge zur griechischen Epigraphik aus Handschriften, Sitzungsberichte der königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (SPAW)1903, 82-91 - see in bibliography , p. 87, n. 3; 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. 10.
1 ἡ πρό[π]υλον κα[---] : 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
ἡ πρό[π]υλον κα[θορῶσα δάφνη ξένη εἰμὶ Κυρήνης] : Fränkel, 1903
Fränkel, M., 1903, Beiträge zur griechischen Epigraphik aus Handschriften, Sitzungsberichte der königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (SPAW)1903, 82-91 - see in bibliography
ΗΠΡΟ+ΥΛΟΝΚΑ
2 τῆς γὰ̣ρ ἐγὼ Γ[---] : (or) τῆς γὰ̣ρ ἔγωγ[ε ---] : 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
γ̣ῆς γὰ̣ρ ἐγὼ γ[ενόμην Ἑλλάδος, οὐ Λιβύης] : Fränkel, 1903
Fränkel, M., 1903, Beiträge zur griechischen Epigraphik aus Handschriften, Sitzungsberichte der königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (SPAW)1903, 82-91 - see in bibliography
ΤΗΣΓΔΡΕΓΩΓ
3
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
ἔρνος <ἀ>νερχό[μ]ε̣ν̣[ον] : Fränkel, 1903
Fränkel, M., 1903, Beiträge zur griechischen Epigraphik aus Handschriften, Sitzungsberichte der königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (SPAW)1903, 82-91 - see in bibliography
ΡΝΟΣΝΕΡΧΟ(vac. 1)Τ̣Υ̣ ||
[---] : 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
[Κράτερος δ' ἱερεύς με φύτευσε]
4
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
Λ̣ητοΐδ̣ην : Fränkel, 1903
Fränkel, M., 1903, Beiträge zur griechischen Epigraphik aus Handschriften, Sitzungsberichte der königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (SPAW)1903, 82-91 - see in bibliography
ΚΗΤΟΙΛΗΝ || δὲ [---] : 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
δ' ἔ[τι νῦν κοσμῶ ἐμοῖς στέφεσιν]
La [---] le portail [---] , dont pour ma part [---] un rejeton s'élevant [---] ; mais le fils de Lètô [---] .
The [---] the gate [---] , of which as for me [---] an offshoot growing [---] ; but the son of Leto [---] .
La [---] il portale [---] , del quale per quel che mi riguarda [---] un virgulto che cresce [---] ; ma il figlio di Latona [---] .
Amongst the notebooks of the French clergyman and scholar Michel Fourmont (1690-1746) are some copies of inscriptions that he received from other persons. When examining Fourmont's archive (this page now available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52506379g/f742.image.r), Fränkel had noticed that this copy was not of Fourmont's hand. He only reproduced the copy without interpreting it. No findspot is given, but one of the texts (IRCyr C.417) contains a reference to Cyrene and another (IRCyr C.385) still survives in the Sanctuary of Apollo. Laronde has shown that the author of the copy is presumably Granger, who visited Cyrene in 1730 (see Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 18-19; Laronde, 1990 Laronde, A., 1990, Les épigraphistes français et la Cyrénaique: le voyage méconnu de Granger au XVIIIe siècle, in Actes du colloque du centenaire de L'Année Épigraphique: Paris, 19-21 octobre 1988. Un siècle d'épigraphie classique: aspects de l'oeuvre des savants français dans les pays du bassin méditerranéen de 1888 à nos jours, Paris, 91-99 - see in bibliography and Laronde, 1990 Laronde, A., 1990, Aspects méconnus du voyage de Granger en Cyrénaïque au XVIIIe siècle, Bulletin de la Société nationale des antiquaires de France (BSAF)1990, 185-199 - see in bibliography ).
Peek proposed very long restorations, which we can not fully endorse. His restorations were based on the idea that this epigram is related to GVCyr028 and GVCyr036, which both mention a laurel, the latter being inscribed on the Roman propylaeum. This idea seems to be confirmed by the mention of ἔρνος ἀνερχόμενον, a quotation from Od. VI.163, where the beautiful Nausicaa is compared with Apollo's laurel. However ἔρνος may simply be a metaphor for 'child' or 'grand-child' without any relation with a laurel or any other real tree.
Metrical analysis: the fragmentary sequences are all dactylic. The beginning of line 2 τῆς γάρ indicates a new sentence, thus compelling to suppose at line 1 at least a noun related to ἡ and a verb. Ιt is therefore clear that each text line is a verse line (this leaving the Homeric quotation at its original place). It is however impossible to guess whether we have four hexameters or two elegiac couplets. The latter is Peek's choice, but usually in such a case, at Cyrene, there is an alternate inset for the pentameter on the stone.
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