Private honors

IGCyr023000

Trismegistos ID: 738250

Source Description

Support

Plain white marble base with two holes for feet of statue on the upper side; the surface is covered by lichen (0.725; 0.335;0.65).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.035; careful letters.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1927 at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo, between the Temple of Athena and the East Staircase leading to the Fountain Terrace .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1983 in situ.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1929 p. 144, n. 19 (ph.), whence SEG , 9.157.

Text

Θεύχρηστος Ἀμωμήτω.

Apparatus

French translation

Theukhrestos fils d'Amômètos.

English translation

Theuchrestos son of Amometos.

Italian translation

Theuchrestos figlio di Amometos.

Commentary

This base sustained a statue of the person named in the inscription. At the nominative case, the name is a caption, so that the monument is mainly honorific. However, being erected in the sanctuary of Apollo, it is at least placed under the protection of the god and might also be taken as some sort of a dedication to him.

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