Tithe and artist's signature
IGCyr019000
Trismegistos ID: 738234
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 626.
Support
Five adjacent fragments of a reconstituted white marble base with mouldings of eggs and darts on upper and lower rims, later reused upside down and hollowed for a basin; broken off at left and in the middle (preserved overall dimensions 0.49; 0.37;0.58).
Layout
Inscribed on front between the mouldings (0.42; 0.25;0.505).
Letters
0.035 at ll. 1-2; 0.025 at l. 3.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
First half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1925 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the Sanctuary of Apollo , Temple of Apollo (1st phase), Cella .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 2001 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1927 Oliverio, G., 1927, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell'estate del 1925: II. Documenti epigrafici del santuario di Apollo, Africa Italiana1, 156-158 - see in bibliography , pp. 156-157 (ph.); Ferri, 1932 Ferri, S., 1932, Una firma di Alcamene a Cirene?, Historia: Studi storici per l'antichità classica6.2, 274-275 - see in bibliography , p. 274; Oliverio, 1933 Oliverio, G., 1933, Alcamene a Cirene, Africa Italiana5, 113-116 - see in bibliography , pp. 113-115 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.100. Cf. Rosamilia, 2014 Rosamilia, E., 2014, Firme di scultori della Cirenaica: un'analisi del corpus, in Luni, M. (ed.), Cirene greca e romana, Monografie di archeologia libica36, Cirene Atene d'Africa7, Roma, 89-106 - see in bibliography , n. 1.
Apparatus
1 Oliverio, 1927 Oliverio, G., 1927, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell'estate del 1925: II. Documenti epigrafici del santuario di Apollo, Africa Italiana1, 156-158 - see in bibliography [Ε]ὐαγγελίδα : Oliverio, 1933 Oliverio, G., 1933, Alcamene a Cirene, Africa Italiana5, 113-116 - see in bibliography [ἐπ᾿ Ἐ]υαγγελίδα
3 [c. 6] Η+ [c. 4 - 5]ς : Oliverio, 1927 Oliverio, G., 1927, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell'estate del 1925: II. Documenti epigrafici del santuario di Apollo, Africa Italiana1, 156-158 - see in bibliography [Δ]ημ̣[ήτριο]ς : Ferri, 1932 Ferri, S., 1932, Una firma di Alcamene a Cirene?, Historia: Studi storici per l'antichità classica6.2, 274-275 - see in bibliography [Λ]ήμ[νιο]ς : Oliverio, 1933 Oliverio, G., 1933, Alcamene a Cirene, Africa Italiana5, 113-116 - see in bibliography [Τ]ηλ[οκλῆ]ς
French translation
[Un tel fils]d'Euangelidas (a consacré) à Apollon comme dîme. [Un tel] a exécuté.
English translation
[So and so son] of Euangelidas (dedicated) to Apollo as a tithe. Made by [so and so].
Italian translation
[Il tale figlio] di Euangelidas (ha dedicato) ad Apollo come decima. [Il tale] fece.
Commentary
Oliverio dated the lettering in the fifth century, which seems too high.
As only eta and an ambiguous letter (lambda or my) are preserved at left of l. 3, it seems wise to restrain from restoring the sculptor's name, a fortiori to guess that it might be the Lemnian Alcamenes (a guess of Ferri, 1932 Ferri, S., 1932, Una firma di Alcamene a Cirene?, Historia: Studi storici per l'antichità classica6.2, 274-275 - see in bibliography , rejected by all commentators).
Rosamilia, 2014 Rosamilia, E., 2014, Firme di scultori della Cirenaica: un'analisi del corpus, in Luni, M. (ed.), Cirene greca e romana, Monografie di archeologia libica36, Cirene Atene d'Africa7, Roma, 89-106 - see in bibliography , having not found the stone, cautiously expressed some doubts about the readings.
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