Dedication (to Artemis?)
IGCyr020400
Trismegistos ID: 6010
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 24.
Support
White marble console, broken into two adjacent pieces (0.59; 0.22;0.30).
Layout
Inscribed on the upper rim (0.59; 0.08; -).
Letters
0.015; deeply cut, in letters pressed together, slightly thickening at the ends; xi without vertical hasta, non-slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1926 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , N-W of the Temple of Apollo .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1928 Oliverio, G., 1928, Campagna di scavo a Cirene nell’estate 1926: i principali documenti epigrafici, Africa Italiana1, 317-336 - see in bibliography , p. 331, n. 14, fig. 20, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.117; Dobias-Lalou, 2003 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2003, Notes sur le Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, in Studi in memoria di Lidiano Bacchielli, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)18, 211-221 - see in bibliography , pp. 211-216, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 53.2049. Cf. Marengo, 2007 Marengo, S.M., 2007, Sacerdotesse di Artemide a Cirene: note epigrafiche, in L. Gasperini, S. Marengo (eds.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'antichità: atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Roma-Frascati, 18-21 dicembre 1996, Ichnia9, Tivoli, 401-410 - see in bibliography .
Apparatus
French translation
Kritola fille d'Alexis, lors de sa prêtrise commune avec Alexandros (a consacré).
English translation
Kritola daughter of Alexis, while being priestess with Alexandros (dedicated).
Italian translation
Kritola figlia di Alexis, mentre era sacerdotessa insieme a Alexandros (ha dedicato).
Commentary
This woman was priestess of Artemis the same year as Alexandros, eponymous priest of Apollo. The formulation has been explained by Marengo, 2007 Marengo, S.M., 2007, Sacerdotesse di Artemide a Cirene: note epigrafiche, in L. Gasperini, S. Marengo (eds.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'antichità: atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Roma-Frascati, 18-21 dicembre 1996, Ichnia9, Tivoli, 401-410 - see in bibliography .
From the type of support and the place where it was found we may infer that it was a dedication; from the office of the dedicant, that it was for Artemis.
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