Dedication of a portal
IGCyr022400
Trismegistos ID: 738247
Source Description
Support
Grey marble block, recut at left for re-use (1.07; 0.3;0.66).
Layout
Inscribed in columns of three lines each, probably 3 in number, followed by one line on the whole width.
Letters
0.025; careful lettering.
Place of Origin
Date
Between 345 and 340 B.C. (prosopography)
Findspot
Found in 1925 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo, re-used in the great Hall of the Trajanic Baths to support a basin re-used from the Greek propylaeum .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1983 fixed on the North wall of the same Hall.
Text constituted from
Transcription from the stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1930 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography , p. 144, n. 1 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.147; Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 108-116, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 38.1894. Cf. Ghislanzoni, 1925 Ghislanzoni, E., 1925, I ΝΟΜΟΦΥΛΑΚΕΣ di Cirene, Rendiconti della R. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Morali, Storiche, e Filologiche (Rend. Acc. Linc.)6.1, 408-432 - see in bibliography , p. 414; Oliverio, 1927 Oliverio, G., 1927, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell'estate del 1925: II. Documenti epigrafici del santuario di Apollo, Africa Italiana1, 156-158 - see in bibliography , p. 326; Pernier, 1935 Pernier, L., 1935, Il tempio e l'altare di Apollo a Cirene. Scavi e studi del 1925 al 1934, Bergamo - see in bibliography , pp. 94-95; 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.
Text
Apparatus
10 Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography [στραταγοὶ Ἀπόλλωνι τὰ]ν ὀπὰν ἀνέθηκαν
French translation
[---] (i.e. trois noms avec patronymes),
[Untel fils d'Untel], [Untel] fils de [---] as, [Untel] fils de [---] mos,
Stasis, fils de Damis, Philôn fils d'Annikeris, Nikodamos fils de Damônax,
[c. 8 - 9] ont dédié le portail [à Apollon].
English translation
[---] (i.e. three names with fathers' names),
[So-and-so son of So-and-so], [So-and-so] son of [---] as, [So-and-so] son of [---] mos,
Stasis, son of Damis, Philon son of Annikeris, Nikodamos son of Damonax,
[c. 8 - 9] dedicated the portal [to Apollo].
Italian translation
[---] (i.e. tre nomi con patronimici),
[il tale figlio del tale], [il tale] figlio di [---] as, [il tale] figlio di [---] mos,
Stasis figlio di Damis, Philon figlio di Annikeris, Nikodamos figlio di Damonax,
[c. 8 - 9] dedicarono [ad Apollo] il portale.
Commentary
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. 110 supplied στραταγοί on the base of Philon's office as a triakatiarchos in IGCyr084000, which does not imply that he later became a general, although the restitution fits well with the space available. Pernier, on the base of the probable number of nine dedicants suggested that they might have been nomophylakes . None of those hypotheses is conclusive.
As Pernier already suspected in 1935, this stone is probably part of the architrave of the pronaos in Apollo's temple. For the meaning of ὀπά see Dobias-Lalou, 2013 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2013, Espace des dieux, espace des hommes, espaces des vivants, espace des morts dans les inscriptions de Cyrénaïque, in A. Inglese, Epigrammata 2. Definire, descrivere, proteggere lo spazio, in ricordo di André Laronde. Atti del convegno di Roma, 26-27 ottobre 2012, Tivoli, 165-195 - see in bibliography , pp. 182-183.
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