Tithe

IGCyr095900

Trismegistos ID: 738469

Source Description

Support

Rectangular, nearly square, grey and white marble block (0.625; 0.55;0.59), with on top one hole (diameter 0.15, depth 0.13) at the center and four holes (diameter 0.07, depth 0.08) near each angle; the four angles are broken off.

Layout

Inscribed on front face.

Letters

0.034 to 0.038; smaller omicron, slanting sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Third quarter of fourth century B.C.

Findspot

Found in 1925 at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo : inside the Temple or Artemis .

Later recorded Location

Seen by Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 at findspot.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2001 in front of the same temple.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, Taccuini inediti , XI.40, whence SECir , 41.

Text

[Ἁγή?]σανδ[ρος] Κλεάνορος δεκάταν.

Apparatus

1 [Ἁγή?]σανδ[ρος] : SECir  [...] σανδ̣[ρος]

2 Κλεάνορος : SECir  Κ̣λεάνορος

French translation

Hagèsandros fils de Kléanôr (a consacré ce monument) comme dîme.

English translation

Hagesandros son of Kleanor (dedicated this monument) as a tithe.

Italian translation

Hagesandros figlio di Kleanor (ha dedicato questo monumento) come decima.

Commentary

At line 1, the restoration [Ἁγή]σανδρος is based on IGCyr010800, l. 80.

The present dedication is clearly made by an distinguished man; both inscriptions seem to have been inscribed within a short span of time; both names have distinctive features of Cyrenaean onomastics and are rare enough to allow a connection between them.

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