Dedication on occasion of telesphoria

IGCyr016500

Trismegistos ID: 6000

Source Description

Support

Grey marble block broken on back, with two foot-holes on top (0.0715; 0.35;0.42-); another block is missing on the left.

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.027.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Third century B.C.

Findspot

Found at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo, SE of Temple of Apollo, near the Fountain of Philothales .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1983 in situ.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1933-1936 , p. 107, n. 74, pl. XX, fig. 29, whence SEG , 9.69.

Text

| [---]  | Ἀθανόδωρος Ἀσμένω | [Καρνῆια? τελεσφ] | ορέων ἀνέθηκε (vac. 2).

Apparatus

2 [Καρνῆια?] : Oliverio, 1933-1936  [τοὺς δεῖνας ἀγῶνας]

French translation

(La statue d')[un tel fils d'un tel] a été consacrée par Athanodôros fils d'Asménos, tandis qu'il accomplissait la [telesph]oria [des Karneia?].

English translation

(The statue of) [so-and-so, son of so-and-so] was dedicated by Athanodoros son of Asmenos, while celebrating the [telesph]oria [of Karneia?].

Italian translation

(La statua del)[tale, figlio del tale] è stata dedicata da Athanodoros figlio di Asmenos, mentre celebrava la [telesph]oria [delle Karneia?].

Commentary

With participle τελεσφορέων we have usually Καρνῆια and sometimes also δεκάταν (see IGCyr016400). There is room for that on a block missing to the left, which had at l. 1 the name of the honoree.

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