Tithe for Apollo by five generals
IGCyr017100
Trismegistos ID: 6003
Source Description
Support
Panel of white marble cut above in the shape of a pediment (total 1.14; 0.63;0.26; without cymatium height 0.445).
Layout
Inscribed in 8 lines, line 1 displaid on the whole length, the other lines aligned along the left margin.
Letters
0.053 at l. 1; 0.05 at l. 2 ff.
Place of Origin
Cyrene pleiades; HGL : possibly from the Doric Treasury .
Date
Between 340 and 330 B.C. (prosopography)
Findspot
Found in 1933 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the Western part of the Sanctuary of Apollo .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1982 by C. Dobias-Lalou at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo, inside the Strategeion .
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. 160, n. 141, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.77; Masson, 1976 Masson, O., 1976, Grecs et Libyens en Cyrénaïque, d'après les témoignages de l'épigraphie, Antiquités Africaines10, 49-62 - see in bibliography , p. 50, footnote 10, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 26.1831; Applebaum, 1979 Applebaum, S., 1979, Jews and Greeks in Ancient Cyrene, Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity28, Leiden - see in bibliography , p. 40, footnote 220, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 29.1673; Gasperini, 1987 Gasperini, L., 1987, Echi della componente autoctona nella produzione epigrafica cirenaica, in Cirene e i Libyi: Atti del Simposio Internazionale, Roma-Urbino, 13-16 aprile 1981, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)12, 403-413 [= , 237-256] - see in bibliography , and Chamoux, 1987 Chamoux, F., 1987, Diodore de Sicile et la Libye, in Cirene e i Libyi: Atti del Simposio Internazionale, Roma-Urbino, 13-16 aprile 1981, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)12, 57-66 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 37.1660; Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 52-58 and 182, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 38.1892; Bacchielli, 1994 Bacchielli, L., 1994, L’ostracismo a Cirene, Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Classica (RFIC)122, 257-270 - see in bibliography , and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 1996.551, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 44.1540.
Text
Apparatus
French translation
Dîme à Apollon prise sur les Maques et les Nasamons. Stratèges: Hermèsandros fils de Théaros, Zènis fils de Praxiadas, Theupheidès fils de Iasis, Mnasarkhos fils de Theukhrestos, Télésarkhos fils de Mnasis.
English translation
Tithe for Apollo taken from Makai and Nasamones. Generals: Hermesandros son of Thearos, Zenis son of Praxiadas, Theupheides son of Iasis, Mnasarchos son of Theuchrestos, Telesarchos son of Mnasis.
Italian translation
Decima ad Apollo presa ai Makai e ai Nasamones. Strateghi: Hermesandros figlio di Thearos, Zenis figlio di Praxiadas, Theupheides figlio di Iasis, Mnasarchos figlio di Theuchrestos, Telesarchos figlio di Mnasis.
Commentary
A. Laronde ( Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 52-58 and 182) discussed family ties of Mnasarkhos (l. 7) and dated the dedication.
We now have probably the father of Hermesandros in IGCyr121600.
Oliverio, in editio princeps , only said that the panel had been found 'in the excavations to the west of the Fountain Terrace'. In his report of the excavations of year 1933 (see Luni, 2014 Luni, M., 2014, Attività di Carlo Anti, Luigi Pernier e Gaspare Oliverio (1923-1938), in M. Luni (ed.), La scoperta di Cirene. Un secolo di scavi, 1913-2013, Monografie di archeologia libica37, Cirene Atene d'Africa8, Roma, 123-156 - see in bibliography , p. 139), he more precisely suggested that it might be related to the ruins of a small offering or temple which were perceivable at the far end of that terrace and which he intended to investigate later on. Stucchi, relying on those informations (then still unpublished) pushed that interesting theory ahead, supposing that the building was a Doric Traesury erected symmetrically with the Strategeion. Unfortunately no further excavation took place there to bring further confirmation (see Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 182).
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