Dedication to Demeter
IGCyr067400
Trismegistos ID: 738352
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 74-516 (American finds).
Support
White, brown stained, marble rectangular base with plain mouldings on top and below, broken off at lower left and both right angles (0.72; 0.30;0.38).
Layout
Inscribed on the face between the mouldings.
Letters
0.026; carefully cut, sigma with slanting strokes, no serifs.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1974 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore , in building E12.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
White, 1976 White, D., 1976, Excavations in the sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene: fourth preliminary report, American journal of archaeology (AJA)80, 165-181 - see in bibliography , p. 172, footnote 21 and pl. 27, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 26.1833 ; also White, 1976-1977 White, D., 1976-1977, Excavations in the sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene: fourth preliminary report, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)13-14, 265-287 - see in bibliography , pp. 274-275 and pl. LXXV a; Reynolds, 2012 Reynolds, J.M., 2012, Appendix: the inscriptions on stone and lead, in D. White (ed.), The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, final reports VIII: the sanctuary’s imperial architectural development, conflict with Christianity, and final days, Philadelphia - see in bibliography , p. 192 n. A.4.
Apparatus
2 Reynolds, 2012 Reynolds, J.M., 2012, Appendix: the inscriptions on stone and lead, in D. White (ed.), The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, final reports VIII: the sanctuary’s imperial architectural development, conflict with Christianity, and final days, Philadelphia - see in bibliography ἀνέθηκε (the possibility of a final nu seemed to her uncertain)
French translation
Aristopatra fille de Thalinnos a consacré à Dèmèter.
English translation
Aristopatra daughter of Thalinnos dedicated to Demeter.
Italian translation
Aristopatra figlia di Thalinnos ha dedicato a Demetra.
Commentary
When found, this dedication was the first complete dedication to Demeter from the site.
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