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 pleiades; HGL : facing of the Northern side of Apollo's altar .
Date
Ca. 340 B.C. (prosopography)
Findspot
Found in 1926 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : re-used as pavement in frigidarium of Trajanic Baths .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1983 by C. Dobias-Lalou at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : on the reconstructed altar of Apollo .
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. 325, n. 2, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.85. Cf. 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. 108-110, 116, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 38.1894.
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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