<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs>, plausibly to Demeter and Kore Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica Università di Bologna IGCyr107600 738605 igcyr107600 https://igcyr.unibo.it/igcyr107600

Creative Commons Attributions-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

All citation, reuse or distribution of this work must contain a link back to DOI: http://doi.org/10.6092/UNIBO/IGCYRGVCYR and the filename (IGCyr000000 or GVCyr000), as well as the year of consultation.

 Cyrene Museum (Storeroom of the American excavations) 73-445

Bottom right-hand corner of block of coarse-grained white marble ( 0.115 0.09 ; diameter 0.135).

 Inscribed on the face which is encrusted. 0.015 to 0.02; without serifs; circular letter smaller than the rest, dissymmetrical nu, slanting sigma. Findspot. Perhaps fifth or fourth century B.C.

Found in 1974 at Cyrene: Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: area C15/16, 1, 1.

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Marked-up according to the EpiDoc Guidelines version 8

Digital or digitized photographs Digitized other representations Arabic English French German Ancient Greek Transliterated Greek Modern Greek Hebrew Italian Latin Cyrenaica Libya Shahat Transcription from previous editor. checked overall check completed apparatus and commentary, added Fr. translation checked, updated and in case corrected physDesc, history, and textClass Updated the file with the data from IRCyr C.870 which in its turn was created and tagged by the same Ljuba at King's in november 2010 moved text-constituted-from to profileDesc/creation mailmerged from IGCYR catalogo unificato
Bibliography

A.2 (no image). Cf. , 2013.480 .

Text Θεανὼ ὑπερδικεῖσα
Apparatus

Theano en qualité d'hyperdikos.

Theano acting as hyperdikos.

Theanò in qualità dihyperdikos.

Commentary

The feminine name Θεανώ may be in the nominative or accusative case, thus naming either the dedicant or the woman whose statue was dedicated. Too much is lost to decide.

For line 2 we accept and develop a suggestion of J.M. Reynolds: one example of the corresponding aorist participle survives in a complete dedication in the same sanctuary (IRCyr C.451) and one of the present participle at Arsinoe-Taucheira, also in a sanctuary of Demeter and Kore (IRCyr T.25). Other mentions of ὑπέρδικος and the related verb mean 'pleading for, advocate' and the context is generally judicial. In IRCyr C.451 a woman is mentioned as having been hyperdikos and priestess, but it is not clear whether she was both at the same time or successively. J.M. Reynolds suggests that this woman's role might be to plead for other women wanting to be initiated. She would be a kind of intercessor.