Dedication to Apollo
IGCyr001000
Trismegistos ID: 738107
Source Description
Support
Fragment of a greyish, brown-glazed clay crater (0.075; 0.036; -).
Layout
Graffito on the rim (0.075; 0.016;0.036).
Letters
0.007.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Ca. 550 B.C. (monument-type)
Findspot
Probably found before 1961 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo .
Last recorded Location
Seen by L. Gasperini in 1961 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Editor's transcription.
Bibliography
Gasperini, 1995 Gasperini, L., 1995, Nuove dediche vascolari all’Apollo di Cirene, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)17, 5-12 [= , 319-334] - see in bibliography , n. 1 (= Gasperini, 2008 Gasperini, L., and Arnaldi, A., Marengo, S.M. (eds.), 2008, Scritti di epigrafia greca, Ichnia10, Tivoli - see in bibliography , pp. 320-324), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 44.1541, 1. Cf. Gasperini, 1997 Gasperini, L., 1997, Culti di eroi fondatori: Battos in Oriente, Taras in Occidente, Miscellanea Greca e Romana21, 1-15 [= , 387-406; = Gasperini, L., Cultos de héroes fundadores: Batos en Oriente, Taras en Occidente, Gerión16, 1998, 143-159] - see in bibliography (= Gasperini, 2008 Gasperini, L., and Arnaldi, A., Marengo, S.M. (eds.), 2008, Scritti di epigrafia greca, Ichnia10, Tivoli - see in bibliography , pp. 388-400, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 47.2164; Maffre, 2007 Maffre, J.J., 2007, La dévotion à Apollon d'après des graffiti inscrits sur des fragments de céramique grecque trouvés à Cyrène, in C. Dobias-Lalou (ed.), Questions de religion cyrénéenne: actes du colloque de Dijon, 21-23 mars 2002, Karthago27, Paris, 166-183 - see in bibliography , n. 27; Dobias-Lalou, 2015 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2015, Les débuts de l'écriture en Cyrénaïque, in A. Inglese, Epigrammata 3. Saper scrivere nel Mediterraneo antico. Esiti di scrittura fra VI e IV sec. a.C., in ricordo di Mario Luni. Atti del convegno di Roma, 7-8 Novembre 2014, Tivoli, 59-80, 315-321 - see in bibliography ; 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 Ϙόρακί (omicron written above rho)
French translation
[Untel] m'a dédié à [Apollon] Korax.
English translation
[So-and-so] dedicated me to [Apollo] Korax.
Italian translation
[Il tale] mi ha dedicato ad [Apollo] Korax.
Arabic translation
فلان وفلان أهدوني للمؤله أبوللون كوراكس
Commentary
According to Callimachus, Hymn II, vv. 65-68, Apollo, in the guise of a crow, would have guided the founder Battos and his fellows to Cyrene. This archaic graffito shows that Callimachus' information, gathered in his homecity, remained vivid.
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