Repository
Cyrene Museum, 261.
Support
White marble panel broken off at left and right (0.27; 0.16;0.045).
Layout
Inscribed in three lines on front face.
Letters
0.025; no serifs, dotted theta, large circular letters, nu slightly shorter at right, phi with oval loop at mid-height.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1960 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
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 , 131 (no image).
1 Ἀθαναία̣[ι ....] : 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
Ἀθαναία[---]
2
[---] [καὶ?] τὰ : 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
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[Untel] fils de [---] as a consacré à Athèna [---] [et] la barrière au cours de sa prêtrise.
[So-and-so] son of [---] as dedicated to Athena [---] [and] the barrier while being priest.
[Il tale] figlio di [---] as ha dedicato ad Atena [---] [e] lo steccato quando era sacerdote.
The right end of the lines may be calculated from the missing letters at line 3. Hence the lost part at left would have been much larger, so as to allow a name and father's name at line 1 and probably the name of one or several other objects dedicated in the gaps. This dedication to Athena by a priest (viz. of Apollo, who might have been mentioned at line 3) is a clue for the existence of a shrine or temple of Athena inside the sanctuary of Apollo, a fact that may also be guessed from the mention of expenses for her priestess in an account of damiergoi (IGCyr011600).
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