Dedication to Apollo by Aristonymos

IGCyr018200

Trismegistos ID: 738233

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 207 (unpublished fragment) and 293.

Support

Two adjacent fragments of a rectangular blue-grey marble block broken off at right; both fragments may be joined at rear (0.315; 0.09;0.095).

Layout

Inscribed along the upper ridge.

Letters

0.018.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Between the second half of the fourth and the first half of the third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1928 at Cyrene : in the Southern angle of the furnace in the Trajanic Baths .

Last recorded Location

Seen in 1976 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Fragment b: Oliverio, 1930 , p. 172, n. 6 (ph.), whence SEG , 9.88; Oliverio, Taccuini inediti , XX.33, whence again SECir , 136 as unpublished; Marengo, 1985 , whence SEG , 36.1461. The unpublished fragment a is added here.

Text

|Ἀρισ[τ]|ώνυμος ⋮ Τ[---]  |τῶ[ι Ἀ]|πόλλωνι ⋮ [---] .

Apparatus

1 ᾿Αρισ[τ]ώνυμος : Oliverio, 1930  [Σ]ώνυμος (without knowing the initial fragment) : SECir  [Εὐ]ώνυμος (without knowing the initial fragment)

2 [Ἀ]πόλλωνι ⋮ [---]  : Oliverio, 1930  [Ἀ]πόλλωνι ⋮ [δεκάταν]

French translation

Aris[t]ônumos fils de T [---]  (a consacré) à [A]pollon  [---] .

English translation

Aris[t]onymos son of T [---]  (dedicated) to [A]pollo  [---] .

Italian translation

Aris[t]onymos figlio di T [---]  (ha dedicato) ad [A]pollo  [---] .

Commentary

The missing word at end might be either ἀνέθηκε "dedicated" or δεκάταν "as a tithe", which was preferred by Oliverio, 1930 , but is not unescapable. In fact the squeeze shows a very tiny part of the upper angle of a letter that might be either an alpha or a delta; this cannot help to decide between the two possibilities.

With a very careful layout the tripuncts of lines 1 and 2 are strictly corresponding to each other. Consequently the father's name was 7 characters long, whichever the word lost at line 2.

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