Dedication to Apollo and private honors

IGCyr009000

Trismegistos ID: 738193

Source Description

Support

Rectangular marble block, cut away on left side (0.48-; 0.216;0.10).

Layout

Inscribed on front face; the end of l. 1 has been chiselled away.

Letters

Height unknown; serifs.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second to first centuries B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found by R.M. Smith and E.A. Porcher in 1861 at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo, under the mosaic pavement of the Temple of Apollo .

Last recorded Location

Seen in 1916 by Marshall in London: British Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editors (CDL).

Bibliography

Smith-Porcher, 1864 , p. 110, n. 5 and pl. 77; Hirschfeld-Marshall, 1916 , n. 1055 with photograph.

Text

[---] [κρ]άτη [c. 10] μ̣[ο]ν (vac. 1 line) [το]ὺς ἑαυτοῦ Ἀπόλλωνι

Apparatus

1 [---] [κρ]άτη [c. 10] μ̣[ο]ν : Hirschfeld-Marshall, 1916  [---]  [δεκ?]άτη [ν?]

French translation

(Untel a consacré) à Apollon (les statues) de [---] [kr]atès et de [---] mos, ses (fils/parents).

English translation

(So-and-so dedicated) to Apollo (the statues) of [---] [kr]ates and of [---] mos, his/her (sons/related persons).

English translation

(Il tale ha dedicato) ad Apollo (le statue) di [---] [kr]ates e di [---] mos, suoi (figli/parenti).

Commentary

Only the general scheme of a dedication of statues may be identified, but all details are lost.

It is noteworthy that the language in use is not the local dialect, as usual in that type of inscriptions.

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