Probably private honors and artist's signature
IGCyr022900
Trismegistos ID: 738249
Source Description
Support
Right part of light grey marble block, broken at left and behind (0.33; 0.38; -).
Layout
Inscribed on face.
Letters
At lines 1 and 2, 0.03; at line 3 0.01.
Place of Origin
Cyrene pleiades; HGL : certainly from the Sanctuary of Apollo .
Date
Perhaps third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1927 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo, reused as coping stone for the sustaining wall north of the sanctuary.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 near Hekate's temple .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1929 Oliverio, G., 1929, Campagna di scavo a Cirene nell’estate 1927, Africa Italiana2, 111-154 - see in bibliography , p. 127, n. 5, fig. 14 p. 122, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.156; Rosamilia, 2014 Rosamilia, E., 2014, Firme di scultori della Cirenaica: un'analisi del corpus, in Luni, M. (ed.), Cirene greca e romana, Monografie di archeologia libica36, Cirene Atene d'Africa7, Roma, 89-106 - see in bibliography , n. 7.
Apparatus
2 Oliverio, 1929 Oliverio, G., 1929, Campagna di scavo a Cirene nell’estate 1927, Africa Italiana2, 111-154 - see in bibliography [ἱερατεύ]ων
French translation
[Untel fils de Philo]kômos (a érigé ce monument) au cours de (telle ou telle magistrature).
Oeuvre d'[un tel fils d'un tel].
English translation
[So-and-so son of Philo]komos (erected this monument) while fulfilling (such and such office).
Made by [So-and-so son of So-and-so].
Italian translation
[Il tale figlio di Philo]komos (ha eretto questo monumento) quando ricopriva (la tale carica).
Opera del [tale figlio del tale].
Commentary
At line 2, there was probably a participle, such as ἱαριτεύων (while he was priest) or τελεσφορέων (while he was telesphoros) vel sim .
As pointed by Rosamilia, a very large part of all lines has been lost, so that at line 3, in addition to name and father's name, an ethnic was perhaps mentioned.
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