Dedication to Apollo

IGCyr005300

Trismegistos ID: 738159

Source Description

Support

Fragmentary foot of a cup of Attic black-glazed ware (-; -;0.004; diameter ca. 0.08).

Layout

Scratched twice under foot, both to be read from the centre.

Letters

textpart A 0.015; textpart B 0.08

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

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

Findspot

Found before 1987 at Cyrene : probably Sanctuary of Apollo .

Last recorded Location

Seen by J.-J. Maffre in 1987 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor (SA).

Bibliography

Maffre, 2007 , p. 175, n. 38 (ph.), whence SEG , 57.2002, 3.

Text

part A
Ε
part B
τὀπό[λōν] [c. 1 - 2]

Apparatus

A-B Maffre, 2007 , SEG   (A and B taken as one and same text)

B.1 τὀπό[λōνος] : (or) τὀπό[λōνι]

French translation

A: intraduisible; B: De/À Apollon.

English translation

A: not usefully translatable; B: Belonging to/For Apollo.

Italian translation

A: intraducibile; B: Di/Per Apollo.

Commentary

B has either the genitive or dative case of the god's name. The epsilon of fragment A, very different in lettering, might hardly be the end of a dedication verb and there is no room for a dedicant's name. Its meaning is unclear.

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