Dedication to the gods of the agora

IGCyr020100

Trismegistos ID: 106102

Source Description

Support

Coloured marble plinth of an equestrian statue (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed on the plinth.

Letters

Height unknown.

Place of Origin

Cyrene .

Date

Last quarter of the fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1926 at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo, reused in the frigidarium of the Trajanic Baths .

Present Location

Not found.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1928 , p. 326, n. 5, fig. 11, whence SEG , 9.113. Cf. Parisi Presicce, 2007 , p. 495, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique , 2008.602, p. 761.

Text

[---]  τ[οῖ]ς θεοῖς τ[οῖς] ἐ[ν] τᾶι ἀ[γορ]ᾶι ἀν[έθηκε].

Apparatus

French translation

(Untel fils d'Untel) a consacré aux dieux de l'agora.

English translation

(So-and-so son of So-and-so) dedicated to the gods of the agora.

Italian translation

(Il tale figlio del tale) ha dedicato agli dèi dell'agora.

Commentary

Although the stone was found re-used in the Roman Baths, its provenance is surely the agora, like IGCyr019900 and IGCyr020000, see Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique , 2008.602, p. 761.

Creative Commons Attributions-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

All citation, reuse or distribution of this work must contain a link back to DOI: http://doi.org/10.6092/UNIBO/IGCYRGVCYR and the filename (IGCyr000000 or GVCyr000), as well as the year of consultation.

Images