Dedication to Apollo

IGCyr030100

Trismegistos ID: 738293

Source Description

Support

Two joining small fragments of an Attic black-glazed ware cup (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Scratched under foot; to be read from outside.

Letters

Height unknown.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Fifth century B.C.

Findspot

Found in 1927 at Cyrene : between the Altar of Apollo and the Temple of Jason Magnus .

Present Location

Not found.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1929 , p. 143, n. 18, fig. 41, whence SEG , 9.312. Cf. Lazzarini, 1976 , p. 274, n. 697.c; Maffre, 2007 , p. 168, n. 3.

Text

[Τõ Ἀπόλο̄]νος δεκ[άτα].

Apparatus

1 SEG  δεκ[άτα] : Oliverio, 1929  δεκ[άταν] : Maffre, 2007  δεκ[άτα] : Maffre, 2007  δεκ[άταν]

French translation

Dîme d'Apollon.

English translation

Apollo's tithe.

Italian translation

Decima di Apollo.

Commentary

As the editor of SEG rightly put it, it is impossible to have the accusative of the word 'tithe' with the genitive of the god's name.

Lazzarini took the readings of SEG without mentioning any restoration.

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