Dedication
IGCyr020900
Trismegistos ID: 738238
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 380.
Support
White marble base, badly worn out, with mouldings of eggs and darts on top and below, with right edge chipped off and back broken off; one hole for attachment on the upper side; two holes for attachment on the under side, maybe for later re-use (0.42; 0.23;0.28).
Layout
Inscribed on the face between the mouldings (0.395; 0.14;0.26).
Letters
0.023.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth century B.C. (prosopography)
Findspot
Found before 1931 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , placed before the Exedra of Apollo Karneios (called 'Fountain of the Gorgoneion' by G. Oliverio).
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2001 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1932-1933 Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , pp. 174-175, n. 51, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.124. 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; 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 d')Eumélidas, avec les revenus des chiots et des oiseaux.
English translation
Being (priest) Eumelidas, thanks to the revenues from puppies and birds.
Italian translation
Sotto (il sacerdozio di) Eumelidas, grazie ai proventi dei cuccioli di cane e degli uccelli.
Arabic translation
فترة (الكاهن) إفميليديس ، شكر لأجل العائدات الناتجة عن بيع الجراء والطيور.
Commentary
Oliverio, 1932-1933 Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , pp. 174-175, n. 51 thought that the inscription mentions a dedication to Hekate (because of the puppies) and to Demeter (because of the birds, which he thought were poultry), but neither the formula nor the finding-place proves this. Furthermore, we have now a dedication (IGCyr125600) mentioning explicitely Apollo as recipient, where 'puppies' are also mentioned. So the most probable recipient of the dedication was Apollo, near whose altar the base was found.
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 absence of a preposition, see Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 166).
For a possible mention of this priest, see IGCyr093600.
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