Dedication to Apollo

IGCyr000900

Trismegistos ID: 738106

Source Description

Support

Fragmentary foot of cup, Attic black-glazed ware (0.075; -; -).

Layout

Graffito under foot, to be read from the centre.

Letters

0.018.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Ca. 550 B.C. (context, lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1928 at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo, under the Trajanic Baths .

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1930 , p. 222, n. 39 (ph.), whence SEG , 9.306; Dobias-Lalou, 1970 , p. 240, n. 7.

Text

[---]  Τ̣ιμό̄χō : τὀ̄[πόλōνι]

Apparatus

French translation

[Un tel, fils] de Timokhos à [Apollon].

English translation

[So-and-so, son] of Timochos for [Apollo].

Italian translation

[Il tale, figlio] di Timochos ad [Apollo].

Commentary

For the name Τίμουχος, see Dobias-Lalou, 1998 .

As complete denominations with name and father's name are very rare in such graffiti of dedication, we might also imagine another formulation: instead of a lost personal name followed by Timochos as a father's name, the word δεκάτα might have been lost and the reading would then be '(tithe) of Timouchos for Apollo'.

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