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 pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo, under the Trajanic Baths .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1930 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography , p. 222, n. 39 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.306; 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 , p. 240, n. 7.
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 Dobias-Lalou, C., 1998, Sur quelques noms latins en Cyrénaïque, in B. Bureau, C. Nicolas (eds.), Moussyllanea: mélanges de linguistique et de littérature anciennes offerts à Claude Moussy, Louvain-Paris, 206-212 - see in bibliography .
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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