Dedication to Apollo
IGCyr029800
Trismegistos ID: 738290
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
Fragment of foot of an Attic black-glazed ware cup (0.06; 0.04; -).
Layout
Scratched under foot, to be read from outside.
Letters
0.005.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fifth century B.C.
Findspot
Found in 1928 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Trajanic Baths , under the small pool (4 meters-deep).
Last recorded Location
Seen by J.-J. Maffre before 1990 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1930 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography , p. 224, n. 41, fig. 89, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.308. 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. 250, n. 530.3; 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. 169, n. 9, fig. 1.
Apparatus
1 [Δεκάτα?] : Oliverio, 1930 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography , 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 , 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 (nothing restored here)
French translation
[Dîme?] d'Apollon.
English translation
Apollo's [tithe?].
Italian translation
[Decima?] di Apollo.
Commentary
Owing to the rest of the documentation, it is possible but not compulsory to restore the word for 'tithe' in the gap before or after the god's name.
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