<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> to Apollo Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica Università di Bologna IGCyr130300 738850 igcyr130300 https://igcyr.unibo.it/igcyr130300

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 512

Central part of a white marble rectangular panel, broken off at left and right ( 0.175 0.14 0.06 ).

 Inscribed on the face in three lines displayed symmetrically along the vertical axis. 0.021 with thickening ends; non-slanting sigma, horse-shoe shaped omega with long lower strokes. Findspot. Perhaps second half of third century.

Found before 1977 at Cyrene: plausibly from the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

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 stone (CDL). checked overall check file created, lemma, text, translation, commentary.
Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text λης Ἀπόλλωνι ς ἱαριτεύων
Apparatus

lès a consacré à Apollon , pendant sa prêtrise.

les dedicated to Apollo while being priest.

les ha dedicato ad Apollo quando era sacerdote.

Commentary

Personal names ending with -λης might be compounds in -κλῆς, -θάλης or -τέλης. The names of a Megakles and of an Eukles are mentioned in IGCyr109300, respectively at ll. 25-26 and 50-51, in a list that might record priests of the third century B.C. But with this large lacuna and without father's name, it is impossible to identify the present dedicant with any of them.

The short word missing at the beginning of line 3 should be an accusative plural and escapes restoration. One might think of ὀπάς 'opening, door, window'. The existing occurrences have the singular cut on the very lintel of doors (see IGCyr017300, IGCyr020700, IGCyr022400, all three monumental doors and IGCyr007000, which is a loculus in a tomb). The support is here quite different and the hypothesis thus very hazardous.