Dedication of a tithe to Apollo

IGCyr017700

Trismegistos ID: 106089

Source Description

Support

Grey marble block with footprints on upper side, along which the back of the stone is broken; also broken off at upper left angle of front side (0.445; 0.175;0.21).

Layout

Inscribed: both lines began at left end of front side; slight vestiges of guidelines.

Letters

0.015.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Beginning of the third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1926 at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo, South-West of the Temple of Apollo .

Last recorded Location

Seen in 1983 by C. Dobias-Lalou at Cyrene : in opisthodomos of the Temple of Apollo .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1928 , p. 328, n. 8 (ph.), whence SEG , 9.83.

Text

[Ψ]ά̣φων Ἐρμοκρέοντος δεκάταν ἀνέθηκε.

Apparatus

1 [Ψ]ά̣φων : Oliverio, 1928  [Ψά]φων

French translation

Psaphon fils d'Hermokreon a consacré comme dîme.

English translation

Psaphon son of Hermokreon dedicated as a tithe.

Italian translation

Psaphon figlio di Hermokreon ha dedicato come decima.

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