Dedication to the gods of the agora
IGCyr019900
Trismegistos ID: 6008
Source Description
Support
Grey marble base with two footprints on top, broken at the upper right angle, chipped off at the left edge (0.82; 0.67;0.695).
Layout
Inscribed: l. 2 is not well centred.
Letters
0.022 ll. 1-2; 0.02 l. 3.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1924 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : agora , reused in a late wall, N-W of the Temple of Demeter and Kore .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : agora , before West portico .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Ghislanzoni, 1925 Ghislanzoni, E., 1925, I ΝΟΜΟΦΥΛΑΚΕΣ di Cirene, Rendiconti della R. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche, e Filologiche (Rend. Acc. Linc.)6.1, 408-432 - see in bibliography , pp. 410-411, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.111; Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 397, 427; Dobias-Lalou, 2003 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2003, Voyageurs cyrénéens, in H. Duchene (ed.), Voyageurs et Antiquité classique, Dijon, 11-21 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 53.2029.
Apparatus
French translation
Praxitélès fils d'Iskhémakhos, (vainqueur aux) jeux Néméens, a consacré (ce monument) aux dieux de l'agora.
English translation
Praxiteles son of Ischemachos, (winner at the) Nemean games, dedicated (this monument) to the gods of the agora.
Italian translation
Praxiteles figlio di Ischemachos, (vincitore ai) giochi di Nemea, ha dedicato (questo monumento) agli dèi dell'agora.
Commentary
For the historical context, see Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography .
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