Dedication of a door
IGCyr017300
Trismegistos ID: 738227
Source Description
Support
Block of limestone architrave, broken or perhaps recut at left for re-use; along the upper edge three guttae surmounted by a ruler are preserved on width 0.20 at the right end (2.08; 0.445; -; depth not accessible; height estimated, as the lower part cannot be unearthed; all observations by Laronde).
Layout
Inscribed on one line at a distance of 0.18 from the upper edge.
Letters
0.085; no serifs, short right stroke of pi; the first four letters are very faint if compared with the others.
Place of Origin
Date
Fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1925 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : re-used at bottom of the retaining wall of the Sanctuary of Apollo .
Last recorded Location
Observed by A. Laronde in the years 1980.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor and Laronde's archive (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1927 Oliverio, G., 1927, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell'estate del 1925: II. Documenti epigrafici del santuario di Apollo, Africa Italiana1, 156-158 - see in bibliography , p. 157, and Pernier, 1927 Pernier, L., 1927, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nel 1925: I. Monumenti nel santuario di Apollo, Africa Italiana1, 126-155 - see in bibliography , p. 155 and fig. 24. Cf. Boehringer, 1929 Boehringer, E., Archaeologische Funde. Kyrenaika, 1929, Archaeologischer Anzeiger (AA)44, 395-430 - see in bibliography , p. 422, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.79; Robert, 1955 Robert, L., 1955, Hellenica: Recueil d'épigraphie, de numismatique et d'antiquités grecques, X, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 28.
Apparatus
1 Oliverio, 1927 Oliverio, G., 1927, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell'estate del 1925: II. Documenti epigrafici del santuario di Apollo, Africa Italiana1, 156-158 - see in bibliography [ἀνέθη]κε : SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography [ἀνέ]θ̣ηκε
French translation
[Untel] a consacré [---] et la porte.
English translation
[So-and-so] dedicated [---] and the door.
Italian translation
[Il tale] ha dedicato [---] e la porta.
Commentary
This is one of the architraves bearing a dedication of a monumental door (see IGCyr020700, IGCyr022400, IGCyr096800). It was registered in SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.79 from a photograph in Pernier's article and Oliverio's simple transcription.
We also have a sketch with measures and transcription by Laronde, who saw nothing before καί; the same may be said of Pernier's photograph. Oliverio transcribed two letters there, so that the verb ἀνέθηκε is unescapable. However we do not know on what behalf two more letters are given as readable in SEG.
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