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Cyrene Museum, 207 (unpublished fragment) and 293.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 pleiades; HGL : 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 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography , p. 172, n. 6 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.88; Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography , XX.33, whence again SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 136 as unpublished; Marengo, 1985 Marengo, S.M., 1985, Note di epigrafia cirenaica: edizioni ripetute, Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Macerata (AFLM)18, 145-162 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 36.1461. The unpublished fragment a is added here.
Apparatus
1 ᾿Αρισ[τ]ώνυμος : Oliverio, 1930 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography [Σ]ώνυμος (without knowing the initial fragment) : SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography [Εὐ]ώνυμος (without knowing the initial fragment)
2 [Ἀ]πόλλωνι ⋮ [---] : Oliverio, 1930 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography [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 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography , 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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