Dedication to Cyrene

IGCyr019700

Trismegistos ID: 6007

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 388.

Support

Rectangular limestone base with two footprints on top (0.70; 0.30;0.60).

Layout

Inscribed: aligned along left margin.

Letters

0.025-0.028.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second half of fourth to first half of third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1916 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1916 , pp. 182-183, n. 2, whence SEG , 9.109.

Text

Καλλίμαχος Ὀλυμπιοδώρω Κυράναι ἀνέθηκε.

Apparatus

French translation

Kallimakhos fils d'Olympiodoros a consacré à Cyrène.

English translation

Kallimachos son of Olympiodoros dedicated to Cyrene.

Italian translation

Kallimachos figlio di Olympiodoros ha dedicato a Cirene.

Commentary

The date, wrongly given as second century B.C. in SEG, has been copied by others. But Oliverio rightly said «buona epoca».

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