<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> to Hermes and Heracles Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica Università di Bologna IGCyr100700 203019 igcyr100700 https://igcyr.unibo.it/igcyr100700

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 Museum of Libya, Tripoli inv. number unknown

Two joining fragments of a white marble panel broken off at left and right ( 0.18 0.205 0.045 ).

 Inscribed in five lines on front face. 0.02; slight serifs, alpha with dropped bar, omicron slightly smaller, non-slanting sigma, widely open upsilon. Findspot. End of second or beginning of first century B.C.

Found in 1934 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene: Sanctuary of Apollo, in a building near the Wall of Nicodamos.

Seen by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 at Tripoli: Museum of Libya.

Seen by A. Laronde in 1978 at the same place.

Not seen by IGCyr team.

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Bibliography

(mention) and , n. 848 (ph.), both as from Tripolitania; VI.64 , whence SECir, 163 ; , n. 7 ; , 1988.1011 ; , p. 307 (ph., dr.) and , 1989.832 , whence SEG, 37.1674 ; , p. 165 .

Text υσανίου γυμνασιαρχήσας ἱαρὰς ξύστρας ὀγδοήκοντα Ἑρμᾶι Ἡρακλεῖ
Apparatus

υσανίου Παυσανίου Λυσανίου Παυσανίου γυμνασιαρχήσας αρχήσας ἱαρὰς ἱερὰς νεὰς , 1989.832 τὰς χαλκᾶς Moretti's restoration per litteras ξύστρας υστρας ὀγδοήκοντα θήκοντα Ἑρμᾶι Ἡρακλεῖ τῶι Ἡρακλεῖ Ἑρμᾶι καὶ Ἡρακλεῖ Moretti's restoration per litteras

Untel fils de ysanias, après avoir exercé la gymnasiarchie a consacré comme biens des dieux quatre-vingt strigiles à Hermès et Héraclès.

So-and-so son of ysanias, after having been gymnasiarch, dedicated as sacred eighty strigils to Hermes and Heracles.

Il tale figlio di ysanias, dopo essere stato ginnasiarco, ha dedicato come sacri ottanta strigili a Ermes e a Eracle.

(فلان) بن [---] يسانياس، بعد أن كان جمنازيارخ (مشرف بالجمنازيوم)، (أهدى) ثمانين مكشطاً[مقدسة] إلى [هرمس] وهيراكلس.

Commentary

Brought to Tripoli during World War II, this inscription has been kept there as if coming from Marsa Diba (or Dila) in North-Western Tripolitania, whence its mention by and its edition by . Pugliese Carratelli, not aware of the latter, published it at SECir, 163 from Oliverio's papers and apparently from his own observation at Tripoli. It was Marengo's merit at to fill the gap and definitely establish the findspot with the help of an unpublished excavation report. Another report mentioning the find is now available at , p. 147 .This item was thus duly deleted from the electronic enhanced issue of IRT 2009.

The restoration of ἱαράς, proposed by C. Dobias-Lalou at line 3 is far from sure, but seems plausible to fit the gap; the adjective would have a predicative value, reinforcing the meaning of the subaudible verb of dedication. S. Marengo's restoration νέας gives a slightly different meaning: the gymnasiarch would have provided new strigils as a necessary duty of his charge. However this does not account for the aorist participle (he was then out of charge) nor for the act of dedication (why new strigils offered to the godsn whence useless ?) ; moreover the restored word seems rather short for the space available.