Dedication to Apollo

IGCyr003000

Trismegistos ID: 738132

Source Description

Support

Four fragments of small vessel, Attic black-glazed ware (diameter 0.075).

Layout

Scratched.

Letters

0.005.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps, first half of the fifth century B.C. (monument-type)

Findspot

Found by G. Oliverio before 1935 at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo, Fountain Terrace .

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team; already lost in 1987 (Maffre).

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, Taccuini inediti , VI.69 (dr.), whence Pugliese Carratelli in SECir , 151 (no image); Dobias-Lalou, 1970 , p. 248, n. 17; Maffre, 2007 , n. 19.

Text

hιαρο͂[ν] δεκάτα

Apparatus

1 hιαρο͂[ν] : Dobias-Lalou, 1970  hιαρό̄[ν]hιαρό[ν] (sic); SECir  hιαρό[ν]

French translation

Dîme des biens du dieu.

English translation

Tithe from the divine goods.

Italian translation

Decima dei beni divini.

Commentary

We take ἱαρο͂ν to be a genitive neuter plural. As shown in IGCyr016700, line 58, the properties of a δεκατός are common property of him and the god. It is thus conceivable that they deserve the word ἱαρός as long as the tithe has not been consecrated. This gives a better reading than the neuter singular ἱαρόν, proposed by Pugliese Carratelli and hitherto accepted, which might however be possible if both words were independant nominal sentences.

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