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 : 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 , p. 224, n. 41, fig. 89, whence SEG , 9.308. Cf. Jeffery, 1961 , p. 324 n. 21, whence SEG , 20.722; Lazzarini, 1976 , p. 250, n. 530.3; Maffre, 2007 , p. 169, n. 9, fig. 1.

Text

[Δεκάτα? τὀ̄π]όλōνος.

Apparatus

1 [Δεκάτα?] : Oliverio, 1930 , Lazzarini, 1976 , Maffre, 2007  (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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