Dedication to Apollo by Philon

IGCyr017900

Trismegistos ID: 106091

Source Description

Support

Three fragments of a white marble panel: missing parts towards the left and at right upper angle (total reconstructed 2.49; 0.73;0.035).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

Average 0.088, omicron 0.067, very carefully cut, without serifs.

Place of Origin

Cyrene : facing of the Northern side of Apollo's altar .

Date

Ca. 340 B.C. (prosopography)

Findspot

Found in 1926 at Cyrene : re-used as pavement in frigidarium of Trajanic Baths .

Last recorded Location

Seen in 1983 by C. Dobias-Lalou at Cyrene : on the reconstructed altar of Apollo .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1928 , p. 325, n. 2, whence SEG , 9.85. Cf. Laronde, 1987 , pp. 108-110, 116, whence SEG , 38.1894.

Text

|Φ[ί]|λ̣ων Αννικεριο[ς] |τὸ[ν β]|ωμὸν ἀνέθηκε τὸν λύγδ̣[ινο]|ν

Apparatus

French translation

Philon fils d'Annikeris a consacré l'autel de marbre.

English translation

Philon son of Annikeris dedicated the marble altar.

Italian translation

Philon figlio di Annikeris ha dedicato l'altare di marmo.

Commentary

Philo's dedication consisted in remodeling the older limestone altar with white marble (see also IGCyr018000).

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