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 pleiades; HGL : 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 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 107, n. 74, pl. XX, fig. 29, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.69.
Apparatus
2 [Καρνῆια?] : Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography [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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