Dedication to Apollo

IGCyr096000

Trismegistos ID: 738470

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 500.

Support

Lower right angle of a white marble base with a hole for attachment on top, broken off at left, on top and behind (0.26; 0.20;0.175).

Layout

Inscribed on front face.

Letters

0.03; carefully cut, slight serifs.

Place of Origin

Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo .

Date

Third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1926 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene : in the great hall of the Trajanic Baths .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, Taccuini inediti , X.3, whence SECir , 42 (no image).

Text

[---] ς̣ Νικίπ̣[πω Ἀπόλ]ωνι (vac. 1 line)

Apparatus

1 [---] ς̣ : SECir  [---] 

French translation

 [---] s fils de Nikippos (a consacré ce monument) à Apollon.

English translation

 [---] s son of Nikippos (dedicated this monument) to Apollo.

Italian translation

 [---] s figlio di Nikippos (ha dedicato questo monumento) ad Apollo.

Commentary

The inscription was edited by Pugliese Carratelli from Oliverio's notebook X, which contains the finds of year 1926.

A man named Θεύδωρος Νικίππω is mentioned as a contributor at IGCyr065210 line 26 (about 280 B.C.). However, to restore this name here may seem a far-fetched guess.

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