Dedication (?)

IGCyr021100

Trismegistos ID: 6012

Source Description

Support

Left part of white marble base re-used with addition of a square hole on the inscribed side (0.12; 0.15; -).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.025.

Place of Origin

Cyrene .

Date

Perhaps second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1928 at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo , N-W of the Roman Propylaeum , probably in re-use (see commentary).

Last recorded Location

Not found.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1930 , p. 192, n. 17, fig. 50, whence SEG , 9.130.

Text

Νικ[---]  [------]   [..] Χ[---]  τὴν [---] 

Apparatus

1 Oliverio, 1930  τὴν Νίκη̣ν̣ (as one and the same line)

French translation

Nik[---]  (a consacré) la [---] 

English translation

Nik[---]  (dedicated) the [---] 

Italian translation

Nik[---]  (ha dedicato) la [---] 

Commentary

Oliverio thought that the hole was intended for attachment and that the inscription ran on the upper surface of the base around the hole. The order of the segments makes it impossible, as well as the lack of any subject for the sentence.

C. Dobias-Lalou thinks that the stone was recut and hollowed for re-use. A hole was made on the previously inscribed side, l. 2 being fully lost, whereas, from the photograph, it is possible to catch a X from l. 3.

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