Dedication
IGCyr098000
Trismegistos ID: 738497
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 641.
Support
White marble base with light plain moulding below on three sides, partly broken off at left back (0.395; 0.14;0.295).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on front face.
Letters
0.017 to 0.02; light rests of guidelines, letters still rubricated, deeply and carefully cut, with slight serifs: dotted theta, large oblique bars of kappa, rather large loop of rho, slanting sigma, calice-shaped upsilon, large omega.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Ca. 225 B.C.
Findspot
Found before 1935 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the so-called Agora of the Gods («presso il muro del Piazzale, nell'angolo con i βωμοί», Oliverio) .
Later recorded Location
Seen in 1960 by G. Pugliese Carratelli in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1997 at the same place.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography , XV.67 and Anti, Taccuini inediti Anti, C., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography , VII.15, 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 , 127 (no image); Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 54, 121 (photo).
Apparatus
1 Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography Θεοχρήστω : 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 Θευχρήστω
French translation
Mnasarchos fils de Theοkhrèstos a consacré (ce monument) durant sa prêtrise.
English translation
Mnasarchos son of Theοchrestos dedicated (this monument) while being priest.
Italian translation
Mnasarchos figlio di Theοchrestos ha dedicato (questo monumento) quando era sacerdote.
Commentary
For the family of the dedicant, see Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , pp. 54, 121.
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