Tithe for Apollo
IGCyr098900
Trismegistos ID: 738507
Source Description
Support
Probably marble base, broken off at left (0.44; 0.20;0.70).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on front face.
Letters
0.032; beta with larger upper loop, slightly smaller circular letters, slanting mu, nu slightly shorter at right.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Third quarter of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found between 1916 and 1927 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo, reused as a stair of the Eastern door of the apodyterion in the Trajanic Baths .
Present Location
Not found by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor.
Bibliography
Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography II.53, 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 , 140 (photo).
Apparatus
1 [.....] μος : 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 [---] μος
French translation
[---] mos fils d'Autobolos (a consacré ce monument) à Apollon au titre de la dîme.
English translation
[---] mos son of Autobolos (dedicated this monument) to Apollo as a tithe.
Italian translation
[---] mos figlio di Autobolos (ha dedicato questo monumento) ad Apollo come decima.
Commentary
Pugliese Carratelli at 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 , published this inscription from a photograph in the archive of the Department of Antiquities and a drawing found in Oliverio's papers. From them he was also able to mention the findspot.
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