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 : 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 , p. 267, n. 545, fig. 108, whence SEG , 9.317. Cf. Lazzarini, 1976 , p. 275, n. 700; Maffre, 2007 , p. 170, n. 15.

Text

Ἀπόλλωνος δεκάτα.

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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