Dedication to Apollo
IGCyr030400
Trismegistos ID: 738296
Source Description
Support
Bottom of an Attic ware skyphos (diameter 0.045).
Layout
Scratched under the bottom; to be read from the center.
Letters
0.005-0.009.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps, fifth century B.C.
Findspot
Found before 1935 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North of the Altar of Artemis .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 267, n. 544, fig. 108, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.316. Cf. 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. 700; 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. 14.
Apparatus
French translation
Dîme.
English translation
Tithe.
Italian translation
Decima.
Commentary
No god's name was ever written, but it is obvious that the tithe was offered to Apollo, both because he is the only recipient of such offerings at Cyrene and because the fragment was found in his sanctuary.
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