Name
IGCyr068500
Trismegistos ID: 738355
Source Description
Support
Sandstone block, perhaps recut on top for re-use (1.23; 0.33;0.58).
Layout
Inscribed a) just under upper rim, probably because it was recut; b) with a lone letter under 2nd and 3rd letters of a).
Letters
a) 0.035,serifs; non-slanting sigma; b) 0.04.
Place of Origin
Date
Second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
First seen in 1960 by D. Morelli for SECir in the Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia pleiades; HGL : re-used in forecomplex of the West Church .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 and again 2010 at the same place (of re-use).
Text constituted from
Transcrption from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Morelli in SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , n. 295; Reynolds, 1976 Reynolds, J.M., 1976, The Inscriptions of Apollonia, in R.G. Goodchild, J. Griffiths Pedley, D. White, J.H. Humphrey (eds.), Apollonia, the port of Cyrene: excavations by the University of Michigan, 1965-1967, Libya Antiqua (LibAnt)Suppl. 4, Tripoli, 293-333 - see in bibliography , p. 306, n. 25, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 27.1147.
Apparatus
Texpart b) not mentioned by previous editors.
French translation
a) Dionysios. b) Intraduisible.
English translation
a) Dionysios. b) Not translatable.
Italian translation
a) Dionysios. b) Non traducibile.
Commentary
This name is possibly isolated because the stone was cut off for a re-use. Its original purpose is thus unclear.
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