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 pleiades; HGL : 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 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 , p. 110, n. 5 and pl. 77; Hirschfeld-Marshall, 1916 Hirschfeld, G., Marshall, F.H., 1916, The collection of ancient Greek inscriptions in the British Museum: part 4: Knidos, Halikarnassos and Branchidae by Gustav Hirschfeld; supplementary and miscellaneous inscriptions by F.H. Marshall, IV, Oxford - see in bibliography , n. 1055 with photograph.
Apparatus
1 [---] [κρ]άτη [c. 10] μ̣[ο]ν : Hirschfeld-Marshall, 1916 Hirschfeld, G., Marshall, F.H., 1916, The collection of ancient Greek inscriptions in the British Museum: part 4: Knidos, Halikarnassos and Branchidae by Gustav Hirschfeld; supplementary and miscellaneous inscriptions by F.H. Marshall, IV, Oxford - see in bibliography [---] [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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