Dedication to Apollo by Pratomedes
IGCyr017500
Trismegistos ID: 738229
Source Description
Support
Marble base of cubic shape belonging to an exedra; the base, which is broken off at left, is surmounted with an agyieus. The upper part of the base (reconstructed width 0.725) has a relief with two figures and is separated from the inscribed bottom by a plain cornice.
Layout
Inscribed under relief on a surface badly chipped below; stoichedon (preserved inscribed area 0.48; 0.095;).
Letters
0.02.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of the fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1926 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Exedra of Apollo Karneios .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 2001 by C. Dobias-Lalou in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1928 Oliverio, G., 1928, Campagna di scavo a Cirene nell’estate 1926: i principali documenti epigrafici, Africa Italiana1, 317-336 - see in bibliography , p. 327, n. 7, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.81. Cf. Paribeni, 1959 Paribeni, E., 1959, Catalogo delle sculture di Cirene: statue e rilievi di carattere religioso, Roma - see in bibliography , n. 60, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 17.794; Gasperini, 1976 Gasperini, L., 1976, L'epigrafe, in E. Di Filippo Balestrazzi, L. Gasperini, M. Balestrazzi, L'emiciclo di Pratomedes a Cirene: la testimonianza di un culto aniconico di tradizione dorica, in P. Romanelli, S. Stucchi (eds.), Cirene e la Grecia, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)8, 156-157 [= , 119-124] - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 26.1832; again Gasperini, 2008 Gasperini, L., and Arnaldi, A., Marengo, S.M. (eds.), 2008, Scritti di epigrafia greca, Ichnia10, Tivoli - see in bibliography , pp. 119-123 ; 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. 182-183, 196 footnote 140, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 38.1896.
Apparatus
French translation
Pratomedes fils de Polymnis (a consacré) à Apollon.
English translation
Pratomedes son of Polymnis (dedicated) to Apollo.
Italian translation
Pratomedes figlio di Polymnis (ha dedicato) ad Apollo.
Commentary
In the debated question of the function and date of the whole monument (fountain, exedra?), L. Gasperini ( Gasperini, 1976 Gasperini, L., 1976, L'epigrafe, in E. Di Filippo Balestrazzi, L. Gasperini, M. Balestrazzi, L'emiciclo di Pratomedes a Cirene: la testimonianza di un culto aniconico di tradizione dorica, in P. Romanelli, S. Stucchi (eds.), Cirene e la Grecia, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)8, 156-157 [= , 119-124] - see in bibliography ) gives epigraphical arguments for Oliverio's dating towards the end of IV B.C. So also 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. 182-183 with bibliography.
The colour picture (courtesy H. Walda, IRCyr project) was taken in 2008. Sitting at right of the exedra is Joyce M. Reynolds during her last visit to Cyrene.
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