Dedication
IGCyr095200
Trismegistos ID: 738461
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 149.
Support
Two joining fragments from a small white marble plain base with a circular hole near the left fore angle of the upper side; fragment b seems is now missing: ; (the two joined fragments, as given by Oliverio0.295; 0.08;0.27; fragment a alone is wide 0.22 at back).
Layout
Inscribed on front face (which is 0.10 wide at fragment a).
Letters
0.018; thickening ends of letters rather than real serifs; slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found on August 24th, 1925 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , East of the Altar of Apollo , between it and the vestiges of the oldest altar.
Later recorded Location
Fragment a only seen by Morelli in 1960 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum ; fragment b was probably already lost at the time.
Last recorded Location
Fragment a only, seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in the same museum.
Text constituted from
Transcription from the stone (fragment a) and previous editors (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1927 Oliverio, G., 1927, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell'estate del 1925: II. Documenti epigrafici del santuario di Apollo, Africa Italiana1, 156-158 - see in bibliography , p. 157 (mention) Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography , XI.87 and Anti, Taccuini inediti Anti, C., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography , I.27, whence Pugliese Carratelli, 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 , 29 (both fragments) and again Morelli, 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 , 247 (fragment a only). Cf. Stucchi, 1992 Stucchi, S., 1992, Gli anni di Carlo Anti a Cirene, in Carlo Anti. Giornate di Studio nel centenario della nascità, Verona- Padova-Venezia, 6-8 marzo 1980, Contributi alla storia dell' Università di Padova26, Trieste, 49-128 - see in bibliography , p. 62 (discovery).
Apparatus
1 Ἵππι[ος] : 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 Ἱππι[---]
French translation
Iasôn fils d'Hippis a consacré (ce monument) durant sa prêtrise.
English translation
Iason son of Hippis dedicated (this monument) while being priest.
Italian translation
Iason figlio di Hippis ha dedicato (questo monumento) quando era sacerdote.
Commentary
This inscription was published by Pugliese Carratelli in the first part of 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 from Oliverio's drawing, which is printed there. As only fragment a was to be found in the epigraphic storeroom of the Museum, Morelli published it separately in the third part of the same collection without identifying it.
In Fraser-Matthews, 1987 Fraser, P.M., Matthews, E. (eds.), 1987, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, I: The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, Cyrenaica, Oxford - see in bibliography , the name is restored as Ἱππίας and the date is given as 'perhaps third century B.C.'. However, the restoration of one single letter at the end of l. 1 seems too short and the lettering is clearly earlier.
It is therefore quite plausible that this priest was the same man as [---] ων son of Hippis, mentioned, probably as a military officer, in IGCyr009100.
Even if the god's name is not mentioned, it may be inferred from the findspot that the monument was dedicated to Apollo.
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