Dedication

IGCyr001500

Trismegistos ID: 738112

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 501.

Support

Fragment of white marble basin (0.3; 0.06;0.04).

Layout

Inscribed on the rim (height 0.03), to be read from the exterior.

Letters

0.022; archaic letters: H stands for aspirate, omicron is a dotted circle.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

End of the sixth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1960 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 and again 1993 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

SECir , 172; Dobias-Lalou, 1970 , p. 245, n. 9; Dobias-Lalou, 2000 , p. 76, whence SEG , 50.1637. Cf. Dobias-Lalou, 2015 , pp. 67, 319.

Text

[---] ος : hὀυμόλπ̣[ō ---] 

Apparatus

1 Dobias-Lalou, 2000  hὀυμόλπ̣[ō] : SECir  hορ̣μογ[ένεος]

French translation

[---] os fils d'Eumolpos  [---] .

English translation

[---] os son of Eumolpos  [---] .

Italian translation

[---] os figlio di Eumolpos  [---] .

Commentary

Pugliese thought this might be a fragment referred to by Ferri, 1923 , p. 9 and n. 2, which we suspect now to be IGCyr118900. So Pugliese's hypothesis should be dropped.

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