Dedication to Artemis
IGCyr020700
Trismegistos ID: 738236
Source Description
Support
Left end of the white Parian marble architrave of a door, with sculptured cymatium (0.91; 0.114; -; reconstructed width 2.28).
Layout
Inscribed under the Aeolic frieze.
Letters
Height unknown; very small omicron, slanting nu.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth century B.C. (context, lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1917 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo, Temple of Artemis (2nd phase).
Last recorded Location
Seen in situ many times between 1976 and 2010 by C. Dobias-Lalou.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Pernier, 1931 Pernier, L., 1931, L'Artemision di Cirene, Africa Italiana4, Roma, 173-228 - see in bibliography , p. 208, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.120; Robert, 1955 Robert, L., 1955, Hellenica: Recueil d'épigraphie, de numismatique et d'antiquités grecques, X, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 28, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 14.890.
Apparatus
French translation
La porte (a été consacrée par Untel).
English translation
The door (was dedicated by So-and-so).
Italian translation
La porta (è stata dedicata dal tale).
Arabic translation
الباب (يفهم ضمنياً أنه: أهدي من قبل فلان وفلان).
Commentary
For ὀπά see Robert, 1955 Robert, L., 1955, Hellenica: Recueil d'épigraphie, de numismatique et d'antiquités grecques, X, Paris - see in bibliography .
We have here the word and its support restituted in its original function: the architrave of the door leading from the pronaos to the cella of the 2nd-phase Artemision.
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