Tithe for Apollo
IGCyr095500
Trismegistos ID: 738464
Source Description
Support
White marble base with mouldings on top and below on three sides (0.52; 0.135;0.4); a large hole on the upper face.
Layout
Inscribed on front face (0.48; 0.05;), between the mouldings.
Letters
0.015; carefully cut; large delta, slanting mu, lightly asymmetrical nu, omicron slightly smaller, much slanting sigma, calice-shaped upsilon and psi.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found by G. Oliverio in 1926 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Eastern part of the Sanctuary of Apollo .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2001 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in entrance hall of the Byzantine Baths .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography , X.90, 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 , 37 (photo).
Text
Apparatus
French translation
Mégaloklès fils d'Hypsoklès et Hypsoklès fils de Mégaloklès (ont consacré ce monument) à Apollon comme dîme.
English translation
Megalokles son of Hypsokles and Hypsokles son of Megalokles (dedicated this monument) to Apollo as a tithe.
Italian translation
Megalokles figlio di Hypsokles e Hypsokles figlio di Megalokles (hanno dedicato questo monumento) ad Apollo come decima.
Commentary
At l. 1 the omission of lambda in the father's name was corrected by re-cutting five letters over the last four and the interpunction that originally divided the first man from the second. Even if less clear, the result was more correct.
The personal names clearly show that a father and his son were the dedicants.
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