Dedication

IGCyr092900

Trismegistos ID: 738448

Source Description

Support

Limestone altar with compartment, broken in two adjoining pieces (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed on the front side, just under the upper edge.

Letters

Height unknown; roughly cut, awkwardly aligned; smaller omicron.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps, fourth century B.C.

Findspot

Found in 1990 by F.A. Mohamed, J.M. Reynolds and L. Bacchielli at Taurguni .

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Mohamed, 1996 , p. 128, and Mohamed, 2003 (ph.), and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique , 2004.452, whence SEG , 53.2070.

Text

Ἀπόλλων[ος].

Apparatus

1 Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique  Ἀπόλλων[ος] : Mohamed, 2003  Ἀπόλλων[ι]

French translation

(Autel) d'Apollon.

English translation

(Altar) of Apollo.

Italian translation

(Altare) di Apollo.

Commentary

The names of gods on such altars are rather owner's marks than dedications, hence the restored genitive case rather than the dative of the first editor.

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