Dedication to Opheles
IGCyr000800
Trismegistos ID: 738105
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A60 B2c.
Support
Six adjacent fragments of a late-Rhodian ware cup (diameter 0.12).
Layout
Graffito on the inner wall, to be read from outside.
Letters
Height unknown.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
First half of the sixth century B.C. (monument-type)
Findspot
Found in 1960 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : agora , in a sounding beneath future Temple of Asklepios , in the same area as IGCyr000450.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor (CDL).
Bibliography
Gasperini, 1965 Gasperini, L., 1965, in S. Stucchi, L'agorà di Cirene. I. I lati Nord ed Est della platea inferiore, Monografie di archeologia libica7, Roma, passim [= , Iscrizioni greche e latine dell'agorà di Cirene, 1-53] - see in bibliography , pp. 46-48, pl. X, fig. 10b (= Gasperini, 2008 Gasperini, L., and Arnaldi, A., Marengo, S.M. (eds.), 2008, Scritti di epigrafia greca, Ichnia10, Tivoli - see in bibliography , pp. 2-4); Gasperini, 1967 Gasperini, L., 1967, Le epigrafi, in S. Stucchi, Cirene 1957-1966: Un decennio di attività della missione archeologica italiana a Cirene, Quaderni dell'Istituto italiano di cultura di Tripoli3, Tripoli, 165-189 [= , 75-104] - see in bibliography , pp. 165-166, n. 1, fig. 185 (= Gasperini, 2008 Gasperini, L., and Arnaldi, A., Marengo, S.M. (eds.), 2008, Scritti di epigrafia greca, Ichnia10, Tivoli - see in bibliography , p. 76, pl. I, fig. 1); Dobias-Lalou, 1970 Dobias-Lalou, C., 1970, Pour une chronologie des inscriptions archaïques de Cyrène, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh)ser. 3, 44, 228-256 - see in bibliography , pp. 239-240, n. 6. Cf. Parisi Presicce, 2007 Parisi Presicce, C., 2007, La casa di Batto, il culto dell'eroe fondatore e il regime democratico a Cirene, in C. Dobias-Lalou (ed.), Questions de religion cyrénéenne: actes du colloque de Dijon, 21-23 mars 2002, Karthago27, Paris, 245-264 - see in bibliography , pp. 249-250, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 57.2001; Marengo, 2016 Marengo, S.M., 2016, Scoperte epigrafiche a Cirene, in Rizzo, M.A., Macerata e l'archeologia in Libia. 45 anni di ricerche dell'Ateneo maceratese. Atti del Convegno Macerata, 18 marzo 2014, Monografie di archeologia libica40, Roma, 161-170 - see in bibliography , p. 167.
Apparatus
1 [---] Ἀπίō : Gasperini, 1965 Gasperini, L., 1965, in S. Stucchi, L'agorà di Cirene. I. I lati Nord ed Est della platea inferiore, Monografie di archeologia libica7, Roma, passim [= , Iscrizioni greche e latine dell'agorà di Cirene, 1-53] - see in bibliography [---] λπίο
French translation
[Untel] fils d'Apios pour Ophélès.
English translation
[So-and-so] son of Apios for Opheles.
Italian translation
[Il tale] figlio di Apios per Opheles.
Commentary
Gasperini's assembling and reading seem cautious and meaningful. Opheles is plausibly also mentioned in IGCyr003300. Parisi Presicce, 2007 Parisi Presicce, C., 2007, La casa di Batto, il culto dell'eroe fondatore e il regime democratico a Cirene, in C. Dobias-Lalou (ed.), Questions de religion cyrénéenne: actes du colloque de Dijon, 21-23 mars 2002, Karthago27, Paris, 245-264 - see in bibliography is right in emphasizing that the archaeological context of the find does not allow to relate the cup with the neighbouring building, whereas his doubts about the very reading and thus about the mention of Opheles are by far less convincing (see Marengo, 2016 Marengo, S.M., 2016, Scoperte epigrafiche a Cirene, in Rizzo, M.A., Macerata e l'archeologia in Libia. 45 anni di ricerche dell'Ateneo maceratese. Atti del Convegno Macerata, 18 marzo 2014, Monografie di archeologia libica40, Roma, 161-170 - see in bibliography , p. 167.
Grammatically speaking, instead of a lost personal name followed with Apios as a father's name (our translation), another formulation would be possible, if the lost word was δεκάτα. However, the dedication of a tithe to a minor deity such as Opheles is rather unlikely.
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