Dedication of a hecatomb by Hermesandros (second edition)
GVCyr054
Trismegistos ID: 738943
Source Description
Support
Rectangular block of grey-blue marble (0.513; 0.285;0.125).
Layout
Inscribed on the face in eight lines (one line of script for one hemistich).
Letters
0.016; regularly and carefully cut with slight serifs; broad gamma, smaller theta and omicron, non-slanting sigma, widely open upper part of upsilon, phi with flattened loop.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably end of second or beginning of first century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1936 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : on the Fountain Terrace , area of the Spring of Kyra .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : in 1982 kept inside the Strategeion , and again in 2001 in the new storeroom of the Cyrene Museum
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
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 , 161; Chamoux, 1975 Chamoux, F., 1975, L'épigramme d'Hermésandros à Cyrène, Živa Antika (ŽAnt)25, 272-273 - see in bibliography , pp. 272-273, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 38.1898; Gallavotti, 1963 Gallavotti, C., 1963, Una "defixio" dorica e altri nuovi epigrammi cirenaici, Maia15, 450-463 - see in bibliography , pp. 454-455; Gasperini, 1985 Gasperini, L., 1985, Fasi epigrafiche e fasi monumentali: contributi alla storia e all’archeologia di Cirene greca e romana, in G. Barker, J. Lloyd, J. Reynolds (eds.), Cyrenaica in Antiquity (papers presented at the Colloquium on Society and Economy in Cyrenaica held at Newnham College, Cambridge, in March/April 1983), BAR International Series236, Society for Libyan Studies occasional papers1, Oxford, 349-355 [= , 169-178] - see in bibliography , p. 351.
Cf. 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. 188-189, 331 (ph.); Chamoux, 1991 Chamoux, F., 1991, La génisse d’Herculanum. Un aspect de la sculpture animalière chez les Grecs, Monuments et mémoires publiés par l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Fondation Eugène Piot (MMAI)72, 9-32 - see in bibliography , esp. pp. 26-29, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 41.1695; Gasperini, 1996 Gasperini, L., 1996, Note di epigrafia cirenea, in L. Bacchielli, M. Bonanno Aravantinos (eds.), Scritti di Antichità in memoria di Sandro Stucchi, I, Studi Miscellanei29, Roma, 143-156 [= , 361-386] - see in bibliography , pp. 143-148, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 46.2209; Gentile, 1999 Gentile, L., 1999, L'epiteto ΚΑΤΑΓΩΓΙΣ e l'uso del verbo ΚΑΤΑΓΩ in ambito religioso, Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Classica (RFIC)127, 334-343 - see in bibliography , p. 340, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 49.2357. Also L. Gasperini in Bonacasa-Ensoli, 2000 Bonacasa, N., Ensoli, S., et al. (eds.), 2000, Cirene, Centri e monumenti dell'antichità, Milano - see in bibliography , p. 34 (translation); Ensoli Vittozzi, 1996 Ensoli Vittozzi, S., 1996, I rifornimenti idrici del Santuario cireneo di Apollo dal IV sec. a.C. alla fine dell'età tolemaica, in L. Bacchielli, M. Bonanno Aravantinos (eds.), Scritti di Antichità in memoria di Sandro Stucchi, I, Studi Miscellanei29, Roma, 79-110 - see in bibliography , pp. 92-94 (archaeological context).
Text
| Μνᾶμα τόδ’ Ἑρμήσανδρος | ὑπὲρ κράνας ὁ Φίλωνος | θῆκε θεᾶι θύσας | Ἀρτέμιδος τελετᾶι,
Apparatus
4 Chamoux, 1975 Chamoux, F., 1975, L'épigramme d'Hermésandros à Cyrène, Živa Antika (ŽAnt)25, 272-273 - see in bibliography μνάμα : 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 , Gallavotti, 1963 Gallavotti, C., 1963, Una "defixio" dorica e altri nuovi epigrammi cirenaici, Maia15, 450-463 - see in bibliography μνᾶμα
French translation
Ce monument, Hermésandros fils de Philon l'a consacré au-dessus de la fontaine (ou source?), après avoir sacrifié à la déesse en faisant descendre (au sanctuaire) pour la fête d'Artémis cent vingt boeufs. D'eux restent ces (mots), qui sont à la fois un ornement, un souvenir et un noble titre de gloire.
(trad. Fr. Chamoux modifiée)English translation
This monument Hermesandros son of Philon dedicated above the fountain (or spring?), once he had sacrificed to the goddess, after leading down (into the sanctuary) for Artemis' festival hundred and twenty oxes. Of them these (words) remain as ornament and keepsake and glorious fame.
Italian translation
Questo monumento Hermesandros figlio di Philon al di sopra della fonte (o sorgente?) pose dopo che, spinti giù (nel santuario) cento e venti buoi, li ebbe sacrificati alla dea in occasione della festa di Artemis. Dei quali queste (parole) rimangono per ornamento e per ricordo e per fama gloriosa.
(trad. L. Gasperini con modifiche)Commentary
This inscription is a later duplicate of GVCyr023, the small lacunae of which can be restored from this one. The only difference is that here the name of the goddess has the form and inflexion usual in koine Ἀρτέμιδος.
For the commentary and metrical analysis, see at GVCyr023.
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