Private honors for Hippodamos

IGCyr017600

Trismegistos ID: 738230

Source Description

Support

White marble rectangular base broken into two adjoining fragments, the left one keeping the original height; one footprint on each fragment in the upper side (total 0.68; 0.265;0.365; fragment a 0.395; -;0.365; fragment b 0.375; 0.24;0.365).

Layout

Inscribed near upper rim.

Letters

0.035.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

End of the fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1926 at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo, West of the Doric Fountain .

Last recorded Location

Seen in 1983 by C. Dobias-Lalou in situ.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone.

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1928 , p. 331, n. 13, whence SEG , 9.82.

Text

|Ἱππόδαμος |Ἰάσονος.

Apparatus

French translation

Hippodamos fils de Iason.

English translation

Hippodamos son of Iason.

Italian translation

Hippodamos figlio di Iason.

Commentary

The holes for attachment of a statue imply that this was no funerary base and the place where the base was found shows that it was a dedication to Apollo.

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