Double dedication to Apollo by Philon

IGCyr018000

Trismegistos ID: 738231

Source Description

Support

Two white marble blocks with cornices (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed above the cornices.

Letters

Height unknown.

Place of Origin

Cyrene : in the Sanctuary of Apollo, crowning each parapet at South and North ends of the staircase leading to the altar of Apollo .

Date

Ca. 340 B.C. (prosopography)

Findspot

Found in 1926 at Cyrene : reused as pavement in the frigidarium of the Byzantine Baths .

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1928 , p. 326, n. 3-4, whence SEG , 9.86; Laronde, 1987 , pp. 111, 116, whence SEG , 38.1894. Cf. Pernier, 1935 , p. 70.

Text

Φίλων Αννικεριος Ἀπόλλωνι ἀνέθηκε.

Apparatus

French translation

Philôn fils d'Annikeris a consacré à Apollon.

English translation

Philon son of Annikeris dedicated to Apollo.

Italian translation

Philon figlio di Annikeris ha dedicato ad Apollo.

Commentary

Because of the bad light and of growing trees, it was impossible to see those two sister inscriptions, whereas the more developed dedication IGCyr017900 is much more conspicuous.

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