Dedication, possibly to Hestia

Bibliography

Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography , XII.85, 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 , 65 (fig. 58).

Text

Apparatus

1 Αἰσχύ̣[λος] : 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  Αἰσχ[---] 

2 ἱαροθ[υτ] [c. 2 - 5] : 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  ἱαροθ̣[υτ?]

3 Ὶστίαι [ἀνέθηκε?] (or Ἱστιαῖ[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  Ἰστιαι[---] 

4 Ἀπόλ[λωνα?] : 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  Ἀπολ̣[λων] (personal name or god's name?)

French translation

Aiskhylos en tant que hiarothyte [a consacré] à Histia (l'image d') Apollon.

English translation

Aischylos acting as a hiarothytas [dedicated ] to Histia (the image of) Apollo.

Italian translation

Aischylos quando era hiarothytas [ha dedicato ] a Histia (l'immagine di) Apollo.

Commentary

Pugliese Carratelli published the inscription from Oliverio's papers after having observed it himself. He supposed the stone to have been cut off above, which C. Dobias-Lalou does not confirm.

At line 2, we probably have a form related to the religious office of ἱαροθύτας. Up to now, only the noun of action ἱαροθυσία is attested at Cyrene. On behalf of other dedications made by men acting as officers, the present or aorist participle of ἱαροθυτέω would be plausible.

Lines 3 and 4 are too incomplete to allow a clear interpretation of the whole. Four possibilities may be foreseen: 1) a dedication made by Aischylos to the goddess Histia of an image of Apollo; 2) a dedication to the same goddess of the statue of a man whose name includes Apollo as first stem; or 3) of the statue of a man with a short name cut at line 3 and a father's name beginning with Apoll- ; 4) a second dedicant named Histiaios with a short father's name dedicating jointly with Aischylos an image of Apollo.

In support of hypothesis 1 is a series of dedication to Demeter of images of other gods (IRCyr C.498, IRCyr C.499, IRCyr C.457). However, ΑΠΟΛ is cut in a rasura , which is puzzling for the main topic of the inscription. The same objection may be presented against hypothesis 4. Having to correct an error would be more natural if it was a personal name, which would fit hypothesis 3. On the other hand, the article at line 4, which is not common before the first name, seems to depreciate hypothesis 2. All things considered, we choose to translate hypothesis 1, which however should remain uncertain.

Creative Commons Attributions-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

All citation, reuse or distribution of this work must contain a link back to DOI: http://doi.org/10.6092/UNIBO/IGCYRGVCYR and the filename (IGCyr000000 or GVCyr000), as well as the year of consultation.