Dedication to Apollo
IGCyr018800
Trismegistos ID: 106097
Source Description
Support
Grey marble base with footprints on top, recut at left (0.82; 0.28;0.52).
Layout
Inscribed in one line on the face.
Letters
0.03, carefully cut with small serifs ; low bar of alpha, snon-slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1927 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo, re-used as crowning block of retaining wall, behind the Temple of Hekate .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1983 and again in 2010 by C. Dobias-Lalou in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1929 Oliverio, G., 1929, Campagna di scavo a Cirene nell’estate 1927, Africa Italiana2, 111-154 - see in bibliography , p. 128, n. 6, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.94.
Apparatus
French translation
[Un tel fils de ---] khès (a consacré) comme dîme à Apollon.
English translation
[So and so son of ---] ches (dedicated) as a tithe to Apollo.
Italian translation
[Il tale figlio di ---] ches (ha dedicato) come decima ad Apollo.
Commentary
The usual formula leads to suspect that χευς is the end of the father's name of the dedicant at the genitive case. The most plausble guess would be Ἐπιτυχής, which is in fact very rare before the Roman imperial period. That is why we cautiously prefer not to restore it here.
Besides the partial loss of the inscription, the placement of the hole for the right foot of a statue near the left end of the stone shows that the bolckwas later recut or, perhaps, that a second block was joined to this one at left.
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