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 pleiades; HGL : 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 pleiades; HGL : 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 Oliverio, G., 1928, Campagna di scavo a Cirene nell’estate 1926: i principali documenti epigrafici, Africa Italiana1, 317-336 - see in bibliography , p. 326, n. 3-4, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.86; 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. 111, 116, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 38.1894. Cf. Pernier, 1935 Pernier, L., 1935, Il tempio e l'altare di Apollo a Cirene. Scavi e studi del 1925 al 1934, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 70.
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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