<rs type="textType">Tithe</rs> Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica Università di Bologna IGCyr098700 738505 igcyr098700 https://igcyr.unibo.it/igcyr098700

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White marble base broken off at right, with a large circular hole on top ( 0.31 0.214 0.455 ).

 Inscribed in two lines on front face. 0.03; careful letters without serifs, symmetrical nu slightly thickened at end of strokes, delta slightly smaller. Findspot. Second half of fourth or first half of third century B.C.

Found before 1960 at Cyrene: Sanctuary of Apollo, West of the Strategeion.

Seen in 1960 by Pugliese Carratelli at findspot.

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 at findspot.

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Bibliography

SECir, 137 (no image).

Text Νικαγιν δεκάταν ἀνέθηκε
Apparatus

Νικαγιν Νικαι δεκάταν ἀνέθηκε δεκάταν

Nika a consacré ce monument au titre de la dîme.

Nica dedicated this monument as a tithe.

Nika ha dedicato questo monumento come decima.

Commentary

A reduced formula τῶ δεῖνος δεκάτα would be conceivable, but is never attested. With the nominative we only have the type δεκάτα τὠπόλλωνος scratched on sherds. So it is preferable, on a support like this one, to restore a formula with verb + accusative, which furthermore provides space for name and father's name at line 1.

Before the break there remains only a tiny lower part of a hasta. There are a lot of possibilities for the restoration of the first name with the three possible letters that we have selected amongst more numerous ones which would have given no plausible result.