Tithe
IGCyr098700
Trismegistos ID: 738505
Source Description
Support
White marble base broken off at right, with a large circular hole on top (0.31; 0.214;0.455).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on front face.
Letters
0.03; careful letters without serifs, symmetrical nu slightly thickened at end of strokes, delta slightly smaller.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Second half of fourth or first half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1960 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , West of the Strategeion .
Later recorded Location
Seen in 1960 by Pugliese Carratelli at findspot.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 at findspot.
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 , 137 (no image).
Text
Apparatus
Νικα γ also consonant with ι, 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 Νικαι̣[---] || δεκά[ταν ἀνέθηκε] : 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 δεκά[ταν]
French translation
Nika [---] [a consacré] (ce monument) au titre de la dîme.
English translation
Nica [---] [dedicated] (this monument) as a tithe.
Italian translation
Nika [---] [ha dedicato] (questo monumento) come decima.
Commentary
A reduced formula τῶ δεῖνος δεκάτα would be conceivable, but is never attested. With the nominative we only have the type δεκάτα τὠπόλλωνος scratched on sherds. So it is preferable, on a support like this one, to restore a formula with verb + accusative, which furthermore provides space for name and father's name at line 1.
Before the break there remains only a tiny lower part of a hasta. There are a lot of possibilities for the restoration of the first name with the three possible letters that we have selected amongst more numerous ones which would have given no plausible result.
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