Dedication
IGCyr020800
Trismegistos ID: 738237
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 379.
Support
White marble rectangular base much worn out on all sides (0.39; 0.23;0.28).
Layout
Inscribed on the face, each line aligned along the left edge.
Letters
0.0022-0.0025 at l. 3, smaller omicron between pi and rho.
Place of Origin
Date
Between 360 and 350 B.C. (prosopography)
Findspot
Found before 1925 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , amongst the filling material of hypocausts in the Trajanic Baths .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Ferri, 1925 Ferri, S., 1925 (publ. 1926), Alcune iscrizioni di Cirene, Abhandlungen der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, phil.-hist. Klasse5, 3-40 - see in bibliography , p. 33, n. 7, and Oliverio, 1932-1933 Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , pp. 175-176, n. 52, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.123. Cf. Stucchi, 1981 Stucchi, S., 1981, Di un Mitreo e di un oracolo a Cirene. Dialogo con i corvi della Myrtusa, in S. Stucchi, Divagazioni archeologiche, I, Bibliotheca Archaeologica3, Roma, 89-116 - see in bibliography , p. 107, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 31.1576; 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. 103; Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 165-166.
Apparatus
French translation
Sous (la prêtrise de) Mélanippos, avec les revenus des chiots et des oiseaux.
English translation
Being (priest) Melanippos, thanks to the revenues from puppies and birds.
Italian translation
Sotto (il sacerdozio di) Melanippos, grazie ai proventi dei cuccioli di cane e degli uccelli.
Arabic translation
فترة (الكاهن) ميلانيبوس، شكر لأجل العائدات الناتجة عن بيع الجراء والطيور.
Commentary
The eponymous priest might be the priest, son of Aristandros, known from IGCyr012400 (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 ).
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. 103, after Oliverio, 1932-1933 Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , speaks of a dedication to Hekate, about which see commentary at IGCyr020900.
Stucchi, 1981 Stucchi, S., 1981, Di un Mitreo e di un oracolo a Cirene. Dialogo con i corvi della Myrtusa, in S. Stucchi, Divagazioni archeologiche, I, Bibliotheca Archaeologica3, Roma, 89-116 - see in bibliography , p. 107 does not seem to give a convincing explanation about syntax and meaning of lines 2-3.
The inscription only tells the origin of the expense made for the monument (for the use of the preposition, see Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 166).
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