Tithe to Apollo
IGCyr098800
Trismegistos ID: 738506
Source Description
Support
Small white marble, plain rectangular base with hollow for attachment on top (0.605; 0.15;0.465).
Layout
Inscribed on front face in three lines, all beginning at the left edge.
Letters
0.028; no serifs; mu and sigma slightly slanting, smaller omicron, widely open upsilon; line 3 might be later, with a less careful and deeper lettering.
Place of Origin
Date
Second half of fourth century B.C.
Findspot
Found before 1935 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , reused upside down in a later wall West of the Strategeion .
Later recorded Location
Seen in 1960 by Pugliese Carratelli at findspot.
Last recorded Location
Seen in 2001 by C. Dobias-Lalou 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 , 139 (photo).
Apparatus
3 δεκάτα : 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 δεκάτα<ν>
French translation
Philokômos fils de Kleudamos; dîme.
English translation
Philokomos son of Kleudamos; tithe.
Italian translation
Philokomos figlio di Kleudamos; decima.
Commentary
The formulation is not common. There is no syntactic relation between the personal name and the mention of tithe, which might have been added in a second time.
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