Dedication of the Strategeion
IGCyr098500
Trismegistos ID: 106092
Source Description
Support
Limestone treasury now fully reconstructed, the facade of which has a Doric freeze with eight metopes (each 0.472; 0.61;0.63) above the architrave made of five adjacent blocks (each 1.56; 0.50;8.7).
Layout
Inscribed a) on metopes ii to vi (the latter lost); b) on the architrave.
Letters
a) 0.04-0.06; b)0.09-0.10.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Between 340 and 330 B.C. (prosopography)
Findspot
The first fragments were found in 1928, the others in 1929 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo, in the excavations of the Strategeion .
Last recorded Location
Studied by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1983 on the restored monument in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, 1930 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography , p. 203, n. 24, fig. 59, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.89 (= a.iii and iv) and Oliverio, 1930 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography , p. 204, n. 26, fig. 61, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.90 (= a.v) ; Oliverio, 1930 Oliverio, G., 1930, Campagna di scavi a Cirene nell’estate del 1928, Africa Italiana3, 141-229 - see in bibliography , p. 204, n. 25, fig. 60, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.151 (=b.iv); all fragments together 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 , 132; Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 104, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 38.1877.
Text
Apparatus
Parts a and b were presented in the inverted order in SECir.
French translation
Les stratèges Aristophanès fils de Paraibatas, Aristis fils de Bakal, Autobios fils d'Haniokhos,[Untel fils d'Untel] et [Untel fils d'Untel] ont consacré (ce momument) à Apollon comme dîme prélevée sur les ennemis.
English translation
The strategoi Aristophanes son of Paraibatas, Aristis son of Bakal, Autobios son of Haniochos,[So-and-so son of So-and-so] and [So-and-so son of So-and-so] dedicated (this momument) to Apollo as a tithe taken from the ennemies.
Italian translation
Gli strateghi Aristophanes figlio di Paraibatas, Aristis figlio di Bakal, Autobios figlio di Haniochos,[il tale figlio del tale] e [il tale figlio del tale] hanno dedicato (questo momumento) ad Apollo come decima presa dai nemici.
Commentary
The above text reflects the modern restoration made in 1930-32 by Gismondi, with one metope not inscribed at each end of the frieze. If the other six ones were really inscribed, we must infer that two names are missing. This has never been mentioned by the previous commentators. Pugliese Carratelli, with help of photographs and copies found in Oliverio's papers, was able to join the parts inscribed viz. on the architrave and on the metopes and published separately by Oliverio. However Pugliese does not seem to have realised that they belonged to the Strategeion, which he could see already reconstructed with the two parts in the reverse order. About that restoration, see the annual archaelogical reports now published by Luni, 2014 Luni, M., 2014, Attività di Carlo Anti, Luigi Pernier e Gaspare Oliverio (1923-1938), in M. Luni (ed.), La scoperta di Cirene. Un secolo di scavi, 1913-2013, Monografie di archeologia libica37, Cirene Atene d'Africa8, Roma, 123-156 - see in bibliography , pp. 133-137.
For the date of the dedication, 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 , p. 104.
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