Dedication to Apollo and Artemis
IGCyr099500
Trismegistos ID: 738513
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 445.
Support
Second out of three white marble panels, broken off at right, whereas the left face is roughly smoothed for joint (0.525; 0.225;0.085).
Layout
Inscribed on front face in three columns of two lines each, followed by one line on the whole width.
Letters
0.025; slight serifs, smaller theta and omicrons, non-slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps first half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found by G. Oliverio before 1935 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , from the Fountain Terrace .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography VI.71, 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 , 147 (no image); Dobias-Lalou, 2003 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2003, Notes sur le Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, in Studi in memoria di Lidiano Bacchielli, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)18, 211-221 - see in bibliography , pp. 219-220, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography 53.2051.
Text
Apparatus
5-6
(no third column in SECir, 147)
7
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
[Ἀπόλλω]νι Ἀρτάμιτι ἀ[νέθηκαν] : 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
[---] νι Ἀρταμίτια [---]
French translation
[---] ssa fille de [---] n, Thaliarkhos fils d'Hagèsistratos, [Untel, fils d'Untel ont consacré] (ce monument) à Apollon et Artémis.
English translation
[---] ssa daughter of [---] n, Thaliarchos son of Hagesistratos, [So-and-so son of So-and-so dedicated] (this monument) to Apollo and Artemis.
Italian translation
[---] ssa figlia di [---] n, Thaliarchos figlio di Hagesistratos, [il tale figlio del tale hanno dedicato] (questo monumento) ad Apollo e Artemide.
Commentary
Pugliese Carratelli, who was not able to find the stone, published the inscription from a drawing (no given) from Oliverio's archive.
Pugliese Carratelli's idea of finding here the name of the festival Ἀρταμίτια would lead to a long formula including τελεσφορέντες and would not allow for an ending -νι before it. So it seems better to restore a dedication to both Apollo and Artemis, who were frequently worshipped together. A third dedicant is thus necessary to fill the space available at left (ll. 1-2).
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