Dedication to Asklepios
IGCyr016900
Trismegistos ID: 738225
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 15.
Support
White marble plinth of a statue re-used in the Hellenistic period after inversion for an over-size statue of Apollo Pythios; above the plinth on the former front face, two tall sandals, one with the toes visible, emerging from a drapery, survive from the former elaboration (0.66; 0.095; -).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on the former front face.
Letters
0.028; large circular letters, dotted theta, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Between the end of fourth and the beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1926 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : : Trajanic Baths , standing in the apodyterium-frigidarium.
Last recorded Location
Observed by Dobias-Lalou in 1982, 1997, 2004 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Ferri, 1927 Ferri, S., 1927, L'Apollo pitio di Cirene: un nuovo esemplare di "pre-omphalos", Africa Italiana1, 116-122 - see in bibliography , p. 116, footnote 1, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.74. Cf. Openo-Reynolds, 1978-1979 Openo, W.D., Reynolds, J., 1978-1979, A monumental tomb at Cyrene, Libya antiqua (LibAnt)15-16, 227-229 - see in bibliography , pp. 228-229, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 37.1676.
Apparatus
French translation
Thémison fils d'Aristis a consacré à Asclè[pi]os.
English translation
Themison son of Aristis dedicated to Askle[pi]os.
Italian translation
Themison figlio di Aristis ha dedicato ad Ascle[pi]o.
Commentary
The funerary base of the dedicant is IGCyr077800 in tomb E121.
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