Tithe for Apollo
IGCyr098650
Trismegistos ID: 738503
Source Description
Support
Small marble base (0.46; 0.20;0.44).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.02; no detail known.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Admittedly Hellenistic (context)
Findspot
Found before 1935 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , probably on the lower terrace.
Present Location
Not found by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960.
Present Location
Not found by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor.
Bibliography
Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography XV.82, 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 , 134 (no image).
Text
Apparatus
2 Ἀρτέμον⸢ο⸣ lapis: α[ς] : 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 Ἀρτέμονο̣[ς] (corrected by Pugliese Carratelli from ΑΡΤΕΜΟΝΑ in Oliverio's drawing)
French translation
Antipatros fils d'Artémôn (a consacré ce monument) à Apollon au titre de la dîme.
English translation
Antipatros son of Artemon (dedicated this monument) to Apollo as a tithe.
Italian translation
Antipatros figlio di Artemon (ha dedicato questo monumento) ad Apollo come decima.
Commentary
This inscription is known only from a hasty sketch in Oliverio's papers, which Pugliese Carratelli did not reproduce.
Although entering into a long series of dedications of tithe, this one has an unusual order of words: Ἀπόλλωνι δεκάταν usually stands at the end.
Pugliese Carratelli was probably right to interpret the father's name as he did; although not attested in Cyrenaica, Ἀρτέμων is well known elsewhere; as a short form of theophoric names containing Artemis' name, its use is not surprising at Cyrene; only its form has a light foreign tint, as a true Cyrenaean name would begin with Ἀρταμ(ι)-.
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