Honors of the priestess Aristokleia
IGCyr019300
Trismegistos ID: 6004
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 56.
Support
Left half of white marble panel broken off at right, with a hole for attachment in the left margin (0.13; 0.11;0.05).
Layout
Inscribed on the face: each line centered.
Letters
0.015; letters with serifs.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second century B.C.
Findspot
Found between 1914 and 1915 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1979 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Ghislanzoni-Oliverio, 1915 Ghislanzoni, E., (from Oliverio, G.), 1915, Notizie archeologiche sulla Cirenaica, Notiziario Archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie1, 65-239 - see in bibliography , p. 218, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.104; Marengo, 1991 Marengo, S.M., 1991, Sacerdoti di Apollo a Cirene. Nuove letture di iscrizioni già note, Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Macerata (AFLM)24, 489-512 - see in bibliography , pp. 496-500, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 41.1697; Reynolds, 2012 Reynolds, J.M., 2012, Appendix: the inscriptions on stone and lead, in D. White (ed.), The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, final reports VIII: the sanctuary’s imperial architectural development, conflict with Christianity, and final days, Philadelphia - see in bibliography , p. 206 n. B.1, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 62.1796.
Apparatus
1 Ἀριστόκλε[ιαν] : Ghislanzoni-Oliverio, 1915 Ghislanzoni, E., (from Oliverio, G.), 1915, Notizie archeologiche sulla Cirenaica, Notiziario Archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie1, 65-239 - see in bibliography Ἀριστοκλε[ῦς] : Marengo, 1991 Marengo, S.M., 1991, Sacerdoti di Apollo a Cirene. Nuove letture di iscrizioni già note, Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Macerata (AFLM)24, 489-512 - see in bibliography Ἀριστόκλε[αν] : Reynolds, 2012 Reynolds, J.M., 2012, Appendix: the inscriptions on stone and lead, in D. White (ed.), The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, final reports VIII: the sanctuary’s imperial architectural development, conflict with Christianity, and final days, Philadelphia - see in bibliography Ἀριστόκλε[α]
2 Ghislanzoni-Oliverio, 1915 Ghislanzoni, E., (from Oliverio, G.), 1915, Notizie archeologiche sulla Cirenaica, Notiziario Archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie1, 65-239 - see in bibliography ἱαριτε[ύοντος] : Reynolds, 2012 Reynolds, J.M., 2012, Appendix: the inscriptions on stone and lead, in D. White (ed.), The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, final reports VIII: the sanctuary’s imperial architectural development, conflict with Christianity, and final days, Philadelphia - see in bibliography ἱαριτε[ύοντα]
3 Γαλέστας : Reynolds, 2012 Reynolds, J.M., 2012, Appendix: the inscriptions on stone and lead, in D. White (ed.), The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, final reports VIII: the sanctuary’s imperial architectural development, conflict with Christianity, and final days, Philadelphia - see in bibliography Γαλέσιας (obviously a misprint)
French translation
(La statue d')Aristokleia [fille d'un tel], qui exerçait la prêtrise, a été consacrée par Galestas [fils d'un tel].
English translation
(The statue of)Aristokleia [daughter of So and so], who was priestess, was dedicated by Galestas [son of So and so].
Italian translation
(La statua di)Aristokleia [figlia del tale], che era sacerdotessa, fu dedicata da Galestas [figlio del tale].
Commentary
Marengo rightly objected to Ghislanzoni's restorations and proposed to have a woman's name at l. 1 rather than a man's name and to see in her the honoranda .
As the stone was found in Demeter and Kore's sanctuary, the most natural solution is to link the participle at l. 2 with the woman's name, without the deities being explicitly mentioned.
Reynolds, 2012 Reynolds, J.M., 2012, Appendix: the inscriptions on stone and lead, in D. White (ed.), The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, final reports VIII: the sanctuary’s imperial architectural development, conflict with Christianity, and final days, Philadelphia - see in bibliography , who does not know Marengo, 1991 Marengo, S.M., 1991, Sacerdoti di Apollo a Cirene. Nuove letture di iscrizioni già note, Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Macerata (AFLM)24, 489-512 - see in bibliography , takes the name at l. 2 for the masculine Aristokles at the accusative case, leading to a highly improbable priest of Demeter.
For the name Γαλέστας see Minon, 2005 Minon, S., 2005, Γαλέστας, Γαλαίστης et Γαλέτας, in F. Poli, G. Vottéro (eds.), De Cyrène à Catherine: trois mille ans de Libyennes. Études grecques et latines offertes à Catherine Dobias-Lalou, Études anciennes30, Nancy, 179-190 - see in bibliography .
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