Dedication to Demeter and Kore
IGCyr067500
Trismegistos ID: 738353
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 73-7 (American excavations).
Support
Part of a white, brown stained, marble base with recess on top for a statue; broken off at right and behind (0.165; 0.065;0.12).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.0175; carefully cut letters without serifs, sigma and mu with four markedly slanting strokes.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1973 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore , Western part, upper terrace, grid C 12/13.
Last recorded Location
Seen by J.M. Reynolds in 1973 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum , Storeroom of the American excavations .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Bibliography
White, 1973 White, D., 1973, Excavations in the sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene 1973. Third preliminary report , Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)10, 197-219 - see in bibliography , p. 208, footnote 26, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 26.1834; 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.5
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 [καὶ Κόραι ἀνέθηκε?] : White, 1973 White, D., 1973, Excavations in the sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene 1973. Third preliminary report , Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)10, 197-219 - see in bibliography [καὶ Κόραι]
French translation
Dionysios [---] à Dèmèter [et à Korè a consacré?].
English translation
Dionysios [---] to Demeter [and to Kore dedicated?].
Italian translation
Dionysios [---] a Demetra e [a Kore ha dedicato?].
Commentary
As 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 , puts it, the name Dionysios, which is plausibly restored, might belong to the dedicant (hence nominative) or to the person whose statue was dedicated by someone else (hence accusative). It depends on the width of the original base, as well as of the divine name or names to be restored at l. 2, with or without a verb.
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