Tithe
IGCyr095400
Trismegistos ID: 738463
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 297.
Support
Fragment of limestone block chipped off on all sides except on top (0.32; 0.18;0.075).
Layout
Inscribed on front face
Letters
0.025; no serifs; alpha with low bar, rho with large loop.
Place of Origin
Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , Temple of Apollo, cella in its 1st phase.
Date
Second third of fourth century B.C. (lettering, prosopography)
Findspot
Found in 1925 by L. Pernier at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , Temple of Apollo , re-used in its 3d phase in a wall East of the thesauron.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (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 of find); Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography , XI.6, whence 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 , 36. Cf. from Pernier, Taccuini inediti Pernier, L., Taccuini inediti, kept at the Università degli Studi di Macerata - see in bibliography , I.1925, p. 105, Bartolini, 2014 Bartolini, I.G., 2014, Luigi Pernier a Cirene (1925-1936), in M. Luni (ed.), La scoperta di Cirene. Un secolo di scavi, 1013-2013, Monografie di archeologia libica37, Cirene Atene d'Africa8, Roma, 157-176 - see in bibliography , p. 167, fig. 9.
Apparatus
1 Κάλλιππο[ς] : 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 [Κ]άλλιππο[ς]
French translation
Kallippos fils d'Aiglanôr (a consacré ce monument) comme dîme.
English translation
Kallippos son of Aiglanor (dedicated this monument) as a tithe.
Italian translation
Kallippos figlio di Aiglanor (ha dedicato questo monumento) come decima.
Commentary
The dedicant should be one of the thearoi sent to Delphi mentioned at IGCyr064100.
Pernier's archive kept at Macerata gives more information about the discovery (see Bartolini, 2014 Bartolini, I.G., 2014, Luigi Pernier a Cirene (1925-1936), in M. Luni (ed.), La scoperta di Cirene. Un secolo di scavi, 1013-2013, Monografie di archeologia libica37, Cirene Atene d'Africa8, Roma, 157-176 - see in bibliography , p. 167, fig. 9).
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