Offering for a deceased person
IGCyr010001
Trismegistos ID: 105909
Source Description
Support
White marble base broken off at left and back, with an oval hollow on top (0.283; 0.12; -).
Layout
Inscribed on front.
Letters
0.022; broad eta, non-slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps, second half or beginning of first centuries B.C.
Findspot
Found in 1911, Norton Expedition, at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Acropolis , in the Peristyle Building .
Present Location
Probably lost.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor.
Bibliography
Robinson, 1913 Robinson, D.M., 1913, Inscriptions from the Cyrenaica, American Journal of Archaeology (AJA)17, 157-200 - see in bibliography , n. 40. Cf. Dobias-Lalou, 2016 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2016, D'un prétendu héros Dioscure aux défunts héroïsés, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)n.s. 9, 163-176 - see in bibliography , p. 170.
Apparatus
French translation
(Untel) héros.
English translation
(So-and-so) heroized.
Italian translation
(Il tale) eroe.
Arabic translation
فلان جُعل بطلاً.
Commentary
Inscriptions including the words heros/heroissa are not many in Cyrenaica. Most of them are votive reliefs. For another base, see IRCyr C.398 and the reliefs with heroized riders IRCyr C.467, IRCyr C.468 and probably IGCyr118600.
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