Private honors and tithe for Apollo
IGCyr099000
Trismegistos ID: 738508
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
White marble base, recut behind in round shape, with plaster and red paint on the inscribed side, broken off at left and right (0.305; 0.27;0.215).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.026; large circular letters, symmetrical nu, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of fourth of beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1935 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo, in front of Fountain of Apollo .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2004 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
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 , 141 (photo).
Apparatus
1
[c. 5] [⋮] : 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
[---]
3
[.....] ον : 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
[---] ον
French translation
(Untel) fils de Polyarkhos (a consacré) à Apollon au titre de la dîme (la statue de) [---] os fils de Khainus.
English translation
(So-and-so) son of Polyarchos (dedicated) to Apollo as a tithe (the statue of) [---] os son of Chainys.
Italian translation
(Il tale) figlio di Polyarchos (ha dedicato) ad Apollo come decima (la statua di) [---] os figlio di Chainys.
Commentary
This inscription was published by Pugliese Carratelli from a photograph in the Antiquities Archives, which mentioned the findspot as given above. He was not able to trace the stone.
In the vacat under line 3, some letters were scratched later on, especially an omicron (or a meaningless circle?) which is much visible on the photograph.
For another occurrence of a son of Chainys, see at IGCyr099100, which however does not allow a secure restoration here.
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