Tithe for Apollo and private honors
IGCyr006700
Trismegistos ID: 738174
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, no inv. number.
Support
Rectangular white marble base with two holes on upper side (0.061; 0.21;0.46).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.03; careful and regular letters covering the whole surface.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Last quarter of the fourth century B.C. (prosopography)
Findspot
First seen by P. Negri in 1827 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the Sanctuary of Apollo, Temple of Apollo .
Later recorded Location
Copied by J. Vattier de Bourville in 1848 at the same place.
Later recorded Location
Copied by R.M. Smith and E.A. Porcher in 1861 at the same place.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou on September 1st, 2001 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Letronne-Bourville, 1848 Letronne, A.-J., (from Bourville, J.V.), 1848, Sept inscriptions grecques trouvées à Cyrène, et deux autres de l'Arabie Petrée, trouvées à Constantine, Journal des Savants (JS)1848, 370-377 - see in bibliography , p. 374, n. v and Vattier de Bourville, 1850 Vattier de Bourville, J., 1850, Rapport adressé à M. le Ministre de l'Instruction publique et des cultes par m. J. Vattier de Bourville, chargé d'une mission dans la Cyrénaïque, Archives des Missions scientifiques et littéraires1, 580-586 - see in bibliography , p. 584; from a copy by [Negri], Sardinian consul in Tripoli, CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography 5133 with addenda in vol. IV; Smith-Porcher, 1864 Smith, R.M., Porcher, E.A., 1864, History of the recent discoveries at Cyrene, made during an expedition to the Cyrenaica in 1860-61, under the auspices of Her Majesty's government, London - see in bibliography , n. 3, p. 109 and pl. 77, whence SGDI Bechtel, F., Baunack, J., et al., Collitz, H. (ed.), Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, III.2, Göttingen, 1905 - see in bibliography 4840 (Blass); DGE Schwyzer, E., Dialectorum Graecarum exempla epigraphica potiora, Leipzig, 1923 - see in bibliography 233; Pugliese Carratelli in SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 138 (no image); Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 116.
Apparatus
1 Π̣ολιάνθης : Smith-Porcher, 1864 Smith, R.M., Porcher, E.A., 1864, History of the recent discoveries at Cyrene, made during an expedition to the Cyrenaica in 1860-61, under the auspices of Her Majesty's government, London - see in bibliography , SGDI Bechtel, F., Baunack, J., et al., Collitz, H. (ed.), Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, III.2, Göttingen, 1905 - see in bibliography , DGE Schwyzer, E., Dialectorum Graecarum exempla epigraphica potiora, Leipzig, 1923 - see in bibliography Πολιάνθης : CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography +ΟΛ+ΑΝΟΗΣ : Letronne-Bourville, 1848 Letronne, A.-J., (from Bourville, J.V.), 1848, Sept inscriptions grecques trouvées à Cyrène, et deux autres de l'Arabie Petrée, trouvées à Constantine, Journal des Savants (JS)1848, 370-377 - see in bibliography [Π]ολ⸢υ⸣ lapis: ιάνθης : Vattier de Bourville, 1850 Vattier de Bourville, J., 1850, Rapport adressé à M. le Ministre de l'Instruction publique et des cultes par m. J. Vattier de Bourville, chargé d'une mission dans la Cyrénaïque, Archives des Missions scientifiques et littéraires1, 580-586 - see in bibliography ΟΛΙΑΝΘΗΣ
French translation
Polianthès, fils d'Anaxis a consacré comme dîme à Apollon (la statue) de son père Anaxis fils de Zeuximakhos.
English translation
Polianthes, son of Anaxis dedicated as a tithe to Apollo (the statue) of his father Anaxis son of Zeuximachos.
Italian translation
Polianthes, figlio di Anaxis ha dedicato come decima ad Apollo (la statua) del padre Anaxis, figlio di Zeuximachos.
Arabic translation
بوليناثيس بن أناكسيس كرس تمثال والده، أناكسيس بن زيوكسيماخوس كضريبة العشر لأبولو
Commentary
Franz for CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography , vol. III used Negri's copy and mentioned only in the addenda of CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, I-IV, Berlin, 1828-1877 - see in bibliography , vol. 4 Letronne's reading from Vattier de Bourville's copy. A small part of the initial pi at line 1 still survives and may have been complete when Smith and Porcher saw it. The stone in 2001 was placed beneath another projecting one, thus the bad quality of our photograph, which is however the first one to be published.
For the family of Polianthes and his date, see Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 119, stemma 5.
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