Dedication to the gods of the agora
IGCyr020000
Trismegistos ID: 106101
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, no inv. number.
Support
Fragmentary white marble rectangular base broken at left and right (0.41; 0.30;0.57).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.035 at ll. 1-2, 0.018 at l. 3.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Between 280 and 250 B.C. (prosopography)
Findspot
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2001 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
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. 411-413, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.112; Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 117; Dobias-Lalou, 1998 Dobias-Lalou, C., 1998, Suppléments aux listes de souscripteurs de Cyrène, in E. Catani, S.M. Marengo (eds.), La Cirenaica in età antica: Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Macerata, 18-20 Maggio 1995, Ichnia1, Pisa-Roma, 207-217 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 48.2055. Cf. Chamoux, 1958 Chamoux, F., 1958, Epigramme de Cyrène en l'honneur du roi Magas, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique (BCH)82, 571-587 - see in bibliography , p. 580, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 17.795; Stucchi, 1975 Stucchi, S., 1975, Architettura cirenaica, Monografie di Archeologia libica9, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 91; Marquaille, 2003 Marquaille, C., 2003, The Ptolemaic ruler as a religious figure in Cyrenaica, Libyan Studies (LibStud), 34, 25-42 - see in bibliography , pp. 27-28, and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 2005.620, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 53.2028.
Apparatus
1 [Νικόβ]ωλος : 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 [Πολύβ]ωλος
French translation
[Nikob]olos fils d'Iasôn, alors qu'il était prêtre du [roi] Magas, a consacré (ce monument) [aux dieux] de l'agora.
English translation
[Nikob]olos son of Iason, being priest of [king] Magas, dedicated (this monument) [to the gods] of the agora.
Italian translation
[Nikob]olos figlio di Iason, quando era sacerdote del [re] Magas, ha dedicato (questo monumento) [agli dèi] dell'agora.
Commentary
For king Magas and his cult, see Chamoux, 1958 Chamoux, F., 1958, Epigramme de Cyrène en l'honneur du roi Magas, Bulletin de correspondance hellénique (BCH)82, 571-587 - see in bibliography and Marquaille, 2003 Marquaille, C., 2003, The Ptolemaic ruler as a religious figure in Cyrenaica, Libyan Studies (LibStud), 34, 25-42 - see in bibliography .
The priest's name is restored with certainty by comparison with IGCyr065200, l. 1.
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