Dedication to Apollo

IGCyr099600

Trismegistos ID: 738514

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 257.

Support

Small marble base, probably square when complete, with circular hollow on top (0.29; 0.12;0.105).

Layout

Inscribed on front face in two lines centred along vertical axis.

Letters

0.02; very careful lettering, beta with two equal half-circles, circular letters smaller that the rest, nu slightly shorter at right, slanting sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1938 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Later recorded Location

Seen in 1960 by Pugliese Carratelli in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 at the same place.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

SECir , 148 (photo).

Text

Βαῖος ⋮ Πόλων Ἀπόλλωνι

Apparatus

French translation

Baios et Polôn (ont consacré ce monument) à Apollon.

English translation

Baios and Polon (dedicated this monument) to Apollo.

Italian translation

Baios e Polon (hanno dedicato questo monumento) ad Apollo.

Commentary

First names without fathers' names occur more frequently on dedicatory graffiti scratched on sherds than on careful inscriptions cut on stone. One reason for this absence might be the fact that both names are not very common and were thought to be sufficient identifiers.

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