Tithe for Apollo
IGCyr018100
Trismegistos ID: 738232
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 246.
Support
Right part of white marble rectangular block broken at left and slightly chipped off at right end (overall 0.33; 0.145;0.18).
Layout
Inscribed just under upper the rim (width 0.22).
Letters
0.022; careful lettering with very slight serifs.
Place of Origin
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found between 1928 and 1929 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : amidst filling material in Trajanic Baths .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1976 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1930 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography , p. 160, n. 3, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.87.
Apparatus
1 [Κ]λήτα : Oliverio, 1930
Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography
[Θα]λήτα
2 δ̣εκάταν : Oliverio, 1930
Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography
[δ]εκάταν
French translation
[Un tel fils de K]lètas [pour Apollon] comme dîme.
English translation
[So and so, son of K]letas [for Apollo] as a tithe.
Italian translation
[Il tale, figlio di K]letas [ad Apollo] come decima.
Commentary
For this kind of blocks the usual dimensions are 0.52 x 0.145, so that the missing part should be about 58% of the whole block and a restoration Ἀπόλλωνι at l. 2 fits well.
For the father's name, Κλήτας would be the shortest restoration to be found and leaves room for names of four letters, such as Νέων, Λέων, Δίων.
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