Tithe
IGCyr098660
Trismegistos ID: 738504
Source Description
Support
White marble base broken into two adjacent pieces, with right upper angle broken off, all edges chipped off, especially the lower one, and front surface in very poor condition (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed in three lines on front face.
Letters
Height unknown; broad delta, very small circular letters, nu shorter at right, slanting mu and sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1935 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , probably 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 (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 , 135 (photo).
Apparatus
2 Πο̣λιά[ν]θ̣ευς : 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
Πρα[τ]α[.] γ̣ευς
3 δ[ε]κά[τα]ν : 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
δεκάτ[α]ν
French translation
Arkhénomidas fils de Polianthès (a consacré ce monument) au titre de la dîme.
English translation
Archenomidas son of Polianthes (dedicated this monument) as a tithe.
Italian translation
Archenomidas figlio di Polianthes (ha dedicato questo monumento) come decima.
Commentary
The stone is known only from a photograph, which allows to give a date from the lettering and to improve the reading of the father's name.
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