Dedication to Apollo

IGCyr002700

Trismegistos ID: 738129

Source Description

Support

Three adjacent fragments of foot of a cup, Attic black-glazed ware (diameter 0.089).

Layout

Scratched under foot.

Letters

0.005-0.01; pi may seem to be cut right to left, but the left hasta is in fact lost due to the break and the right hasta is rather long.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

First half of fifth century B.C. (monument-type)

Findspot

Found before 1938 at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo, Fountain Terrace .

Last recorded Location

Seen by J.-J. Maffre (who added the third fragment) in 1987 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editors (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, Taccuini inediti , VIII, whence SECir , 152g (no image) and Maffre, 2007 , n. 24 (ph.).

Text

[Δεκά]τα : τὀ̄πόλλōν̣[ος]

Apparatus

1 τὀ̄πόλλōν̣[ος] : Maffre, 2007  τὀ̄πόλλōν̣[ος] : Maffre, 2007  τὀ̄πόλλōν̣[ι] SECir  τὀπόλλ[ōνι] (Oliverio)

French translation

Dîme d'Apollon.

English translation

Apollo's tithe.

Italian translation

Decima di Apollo.

Commentary

With the nominative case δεκάτα, the god's name should have the genitive.

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