Dedication to Apollo
IGCyr030500
Trismegistos ID: 738297
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
Bottom of an Attic black-glazed ware skyphos (height 0.026; depth 0.04; diameter 0.062).
Layout
Scratched under the bottom; to be read from the center.
Letters
0.004.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth century B.C.
Findspot
Found before 1935 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : North of the Altar of Artemis .
Last recorded Location
Seen by J.-J. Maffre before 1990 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1933-1936 Oliverio, G., 1933-1936, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, II, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 267, n. 545, fig. 108, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.317. 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. 170, n. 15.
Apparatus
French translation
Dîme d'Apollon.
English translation
Apollo's tithe.
Italian translation
Decima di Apollo.
Commentary
This complete inscription shows clearly one of the two formulations of the tithe: nominative of the word 'tithe' and genitive of the god's name, who becomes the owner of the dedicated object. On the whole, this formulation is a sort of caption.
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