Dedication
IGCyr098100
Trismegistos ID: 738498
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 271.
Support
Fragment of light-grey marble base broken off at left, right and below (0.16; 0.06;0.12); on top there is a circular depression, leaving a polished margin (width at most 0.035).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.015; not very careful lettering, smaller omicron, slanting mu and sigma, upper part of upsilon widely open.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1934 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo (see commentary).
Later recorded Location
Seen by G. Pugliese Caratelli in 1960 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou at the same place in 1976.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography , VI.71, 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 , 128; erroneously republished by Mohamed-Reynolds, 1998 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., 1998, New discoveries in the land of the Giligamae, in M. Khanoussi, P. Ruggeri, C. Vismara (eds.), L'Africa romana: atti del 12. Convegno di studio: Olbia, 12-15 dicembre 1996 (L'Africa romana12), I, Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di storia dell’Università degli studi di Sassari31, Sassari, 135-142 - see in bibliography , pp. 139-40 n. 1a, cf. Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 1999.625, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 48.2063.
Apparatus
1 Κομ[άτα?] : 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 Κομ[---] : Mohamed-Reynolds, 1998 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., 1998, New discoveries in the land of the Giligamae, in M. Khanoussi, P. Ruggeri, C. Vismara (eds.), L'Africa romana: atti del 12. Convegno di studio: Olbia, 12-15 dicembre 1996 (L'Africa romana12), I, Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di storia dell’Università degli studi di Sassari31, Sassari, 135-142 - see in bibliography Κομ[ανῶ?]
French translation
[---] os fils de Kom[atas?] (a consacré ce monument) durant sa prêtrise - - - - - -?
English translation
[---] os son of Kom[atas?] (dedicated this monument) while being priest - - - - - -?
Italian translation
[---] os figlio di Kom[atas?] (ha dedicato questo monumento) quando era sacerdote - - - - - -?
Commentary
The re-publication of the fragment by Mohamed-Reynolds, 1998 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., 1998, New discoveries in the land of the Giligamae, in M. Khanoussi, P. Ruggeri, C. Vismara (eds.), L'Africa romana: atti del 12. Convegno di studio: Olbia, 12-15 dicembre 1996 (L'Africa romana12), I, Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di storia dell’Università degli studi di Sassari31, Sassari, 135-142 - see in bibliography , pp. 139-40 n. 1a is the result of an error on the inventory number; given there as 2072, it would have proven a common provenance with other objects found at Martūbah, whereas the very clear photo shows the inventory number 271, corresponding to the stone seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 and published after autopsy by Pugliese Carratelli with help of Oliverio's archive for the findspot. We infer the date of find from the number of the latter's notebook.
As to the father's name, we reject the restoration Κομανός, a Roman name, and prefer the Greek name Κομάτας. It is thus worth mentioning that this is the father's name of two different men having a personal name ending with -os, one known as an officer about 340 at IGCyr006800, the other having contibuted to a subscription about 280 at IGCyr065210. However the present inscription is too fragmentary to hold an identification for certain.
Rather than an altar ( pace Mohamed-Reynolds, 1998 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., 1998, New discoveries in the land of the Giligamae, in M. Khanoussi, P. Ruggeri, C. Vismara (eds.), L'Africa romana: atti del 12. Convegno di studio: Olbia, 12-15 dicembre 1996 (L'Africa romana12), I, Pubblicazioni del Dipartimento di storia dell’Università degli studi di Sassari31, Sassari, 135-142 - see in bibliography ), this base might have been surmounted by a stone basin of a type often dedicated in the sanctuary of Apollo.
The stone is broken below, so that the dedication may have been complete with the preserved two lines, but may also have included the verb of dedication and the name of the god on more lines below.
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