Honorary inscription for Kallimachos on occasion of the telesphoria
IGCyr016200
Trismegistos ID: 5997
Source Description
Support
Dark grey marble base broken off above, below and at right of front face (0.56; 0.26;0.38); with holes for attachment of a statue on top.
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
Height unknown; slight serifs, sigma with parallel outer bars, very small omicron, phi with flat and small loop.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Last quarter of third to first quarter of second century B.C.
Findspot
Found in 1927 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo, North of Altar of Artemis .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1929 Oliverio, G., 1929, Campagna di scavo a Cirene nell’estate 1927, Africa Italiana2, 111-154 - see in bibliography , p. 130, n. 8, fig. 20, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.66.
Apparatus
2 Λύσι[ος] : Oliverio, 1929 Oliverio, G., 1929, Campagna di scavo a Cirene nell’estate 1927, Africa Italiana2, 111-154 - see in bibliography Λ̣υ̣[σιμ]ά[χω]
French translation
(La statue de) Kallimakhos fils de Lysimakhos a été consacrée par Lysimakhos fils de Lysis après qu'il eut acccompli la telesphoria d'Artémis.
English translation
(The statue of) Kallimachos son of Lysimachos was dedicated by Lysimachos son of Lysis, after having accomplished the telesphoria of Artemis' feasts.
Italian translation
(La statua di) Kallimachos figlio di Lysimachos è stata dedicata da Lysimachos figlio di Lysis, dopo che aveva completato la telesphoria di Artemide.
Commentary
At the end of l. 3, the restoration of the formula is sure and gives a clue for the number of letters lost at end of l. 2, where Oliverio's restoration is obviously too long. We suggest the very common name Λῦσις, which is coherent with the names on use in that family. If we are right, the dedicant was not the brother of the honoured man, as Oliverio's restoration would have implied. He might rather be his father.
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