Tithe for Apollo
IGCyr098600
Trismegistos ID: 738502
Source Description
Support
Two adjacent fragments of a white marble base: fragment a (0.67; 0.25;0.60) broken off at left and right, chipped off on all sides, with two holes for attachment of the feet of a statue on top; fragment b (0.165; 0.155;0.20), unpublished, forming the right end of the block, broken off at left and back.
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on front face with a guide-line still visible under line 2.
Letters
0.023; dotted theta, slanting sigma, circular letters slightly smaller than the others.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of fourth or first half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Fragment a only found before 1960 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the Sanctuary of Apollo , West of the Strategeion .
Last recorded Location
Both fragments were seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in the same area.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
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Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 133 (no image); fragment b unpublished.
Apparatus
1 |[Ἀγ]ά̣θιππος Αὐτοκ|λεῦς : 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
[Ἀγά]θιππος Αὐτοκ[---]
2 |[δεκ]άταν τῶι Ἀπόλ[λ]|ωνι : 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
[δεκ]άταν τῶ Ἀπόλ[λωνος]
French translation
Agathippos fils d'Autoklès (a consacré ce monument) à Apollon au titre de la dîme.
English translation
Agathippos son of Autokles (dedicated this monument) to Apollo as a tithe.
Italian translation
Agathippos figlio di Autokles (ha dedicato questo monumento) ad Apollo come decima.
Commentary
Only the main fragment (a) was seen by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 and published by him. Fragment b was probably already digged out at the time, as C. Dobias-Lalou found it there in 1977 and no excavation took place in that area before the years 1990.
The first name is not complete. Although he did not mention it, Pugliese Carratelli perhaps saw a tiny part of an oblique stroke near the break at left, which was clear to C. Dobias-Lalou. This might explain why he did not consider another possible name, Xanthippos, which was at the time also absent from the Cyrenaean stock, and choose Ἀγάθιππος, only attested in this occurrence at Cyrene. We now hold this restoration for sure. Of the father's name there are a few instances in the region.
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