Dedication to Apollo
IGCyr029700
Trismegistos ID: 738289
Source Description
Support
Fragment of foot of an Attic black-glazed ware cup (0.055; 0.04; -).
Layout
Scratched under foot, along the rim; to be read from center.
Letters
0.005.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fifth century B.C.
Findspot
Found in 1928 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Trajanic Baths , under the so-called Great Hall, on the rocky ground (3.90 deep).
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1930 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography , p. 223, n. 40, fig. 87, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.307. Cf. Jeffery, 1961 Jeffery, L.H., 1961, The local scripts of archaic Greece: a study of the origin of the Greek alphabet and its development from the eighth to the fifth centuries B.C., Oxford - see in bibliography , p. 324 n. 21, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 20.722; Lazzarini, 1976 Lazzarini, M.L., 1976, Le formule delle dediche votive nella Grecia arcaica, Atti della Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche. MemorieSer. 8, v. 19, fasc. 2, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 275, n. 699; Maffre, 2007 Maffre, J.J., 2007, La dévotion à Apollon d'après des graffiti inscrits sur des fragments de céramique grecque trouvés à Cyrène, in C. Dobias-Lalou (ed.), Questions de religion cyrénéenne: actes du colloque de Dijon, 21-23 mars 2002, Karthago27, Paris, 166-183 - see in bibliography , p. 168, n. 8 .
Apparatus
1 [---] έριστος : Oliverio, 1930 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography [Φ?]έριστος || δε[κάταν τὀ̄πόλλο̄νι?] : Oliverio, 1930 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography δε[κάτα?] : Lazzarini, 1976 Lazzarini, M.L., 1976, Le formule delle dediche votive nella Grecia arcaica, Atti della Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di scienze morali, storiche e filologiche. MemorieSer. 8, v. 19, fasc. 2, Roma - see in bibliography δε[κάτα]ν
French translation
[---] éristos (a consacré) la dî[me à Apollon?].
English translation
[---] eristos (dedicated) the ti[the to Apollo?].
Italian translation
[---] eristos (dedicò) come de[cima ad Apollo?].
Commentary
The personal name Φέριστος is not impossible but has no parallel in Cyrenaica. Anyway this word (possibly a name) being a nominative, the word 'tithe' could only be used here as an accusative, with the god's name and even with or without a verb of dedication (e.g. ἀνέθε̄κε).
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