Dedication to Hermes and Heracles

Bibliography

Caputo, 1947 Caputo, G., 1947, Fasti archaeologici2, 314-1315, n. 2786, fig. 82 - see in bibliography (mention) and Reynolds-Ward-Perkins, 1951 Reynolds, J.M., Ward-Perkins, J.B., 1951, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome [enhanced electronic reissue by G. Bodard, C. Roueché, London2009 , ] - see in bibliography , n. 848 (ph.), both as from Tripolitania; Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography VI.64, 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 , 163; Luni, 1976 Luni, M., 1976, Documenti per la storia della istituzione ginnasiale e dell’attività atletica in Cirenaica, in rapporto a quelle della Grecia, in P. Romanelli, S. Stucchi (eds.), Cirene e la Grecia, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)8, 223-284 - see in bibliography , n. 7; Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 1988.1011; Marengo, 1987 Marengo, S.M., 1987, Dedica di un ginnasiarca da Cirene (S.E.Cir. 163 = I.R.T. 848), Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Macerata (AFLM)20, 307-317 - see in bibliography , p. 307 (ph., dr.) and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 1989.832, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 37.1674; Dobias-Lalou, 2010 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2010, Strigiles cyrénéens, in M. Luni (ed.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'Antichità, Monografie di archeologia libica30, Cirene Atene d'Africa: attività delle missioni archeologiche internazionali a Cirene e in Cirenaica3, Roma, 161-167 - see in bibliography , p. 165.

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1  [c. 1 - 2]υ̣σανίου : Reynolds-Ward-Perkins, 1951 Reynolds, J.M., Ward-Perkins, J.B., 1951, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome [enhanced electronic reissue by G. Bodard, C. Roueché, London2009 , ] - see in bibliography  [Πα]υσανίου : Reynolds-Ward-Perkins, 1951 Reynolds, J.M., Ward-Perkins, J.B., 1951, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome [enhanced electronic reissue by G. Bodard, C. Roueché, London2009 , ] - see in bibliography  [Λ]υσανίου : 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  [Πα]υ̣σανίου

2 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  [γυμνασι]αρχήσας : Reynolds-Ward-Perkins, 1951 Reynolds, J.M., Ward-Perkins, J.B., 1951, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome [enhanced electronic reissue by G. Bodard, C. Roueché, London2009 , ] - see in bibliography  [---] αρχήσας

3 [ἱαρὰς?] : Dobias-Lalou, 2010 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2010, Strigiles cyrénéens, in M. Luni (ed.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'Antichità, Monografie di archeologia libica30, Cirene Atene d'Africa: attività delle missioni archeologiche internazionali a Cirene e in Cirenaica3, Roma, 161-167 - see in bibliography  [ἱερὰς?] : Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography  [νεὰς] (, 1989.832) : Marengo, 1987 Marengo, S.M., 1987, Dedica di un ginnasiarca da Cirene (S.E.Cir. 163 = I.R.T. 848), Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Macerata (AFLM)20, 307-317 - see in bibliography  [τὰς] : SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography  [χαλκᾶς] (Moretti's restoration per litteras) : Reynolds-Ward-Perkins, 1951 Reynolds, J.M., Ward-Perkins, J.B., 1951, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome [enhanced electronic reissue by G. Bodard, C. Roueché, London2009 , ] - see in 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  [---]  || Marengo, 1987 Marengo, S.M., 1987, Dedica di un ginnasiarca da Cirene (S.E.Cir. 163 = I.R.T. 848), Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Macerata (AFLM)20, 307-317 - see in bibliography  [ξ]ύστρας : Reynolds-Ward-Perkins, 1951 Reynolds, J.M., Ward-Perkins, J.B., 1951, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome [enhanced electronic reissue by G. Bodard, C. Roueché, London2009 , ] - see in 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  [---] ΥΣΤΡΑΣ

4 Reynolds-Ward-Perkins, 1951 Reynolds, J.M., Ward-Perkins, J.B., 1951, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome [enhanced electronic reissue by G. Bodard, C. Roueché, London2009 , ] - see in bibliography  [ὀγδ]οήκοντα : 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  [---] θ̣ήκοντα || 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  [Ἑρμᾶ]ι (vac. 1) Ἡρακλε[ῖ] : Reynolds-Ward-Perkins, 1951 Reynolds, J.M., Ward-Perkins, J.B., 1951, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome [enhanced electronic reissue by G. Bodard, C. Roueché, London2009 , ] - see in bibliography  [---] [τῶ]ι Ἡρακλε[ῖ] : SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography  [Ἑρμᾶι κα]ὶ Ἡρακλε[ῖ] (Moretti's restoration per litteras)

French translation

(Untel) fils de  [---] ysanias, après avoir exercé la gymnasiarchie (a consacré) [comme biens des dieux] quatre-vingt strigiles à [ Hermès] et Héraclès.

English translation

(So-and-so) son of  [---] ysanias, after having been gymnasiarch, (dedicated) [as sacred] eighty strigils to [Hermes] and Heracles.

Italian translation

(Il tale) figlio di  [---] ysanias, dopo essere stato ginnasiarco, (ha dedicato) [come sacri] ottanta strigili a [Ermes] e a Eracle.

Arabic translation

(فلان) بن [---] يسانياس، بعد أن كان جمنازيارخ (مشرف بالجمنازيوم)، (أهدى) ثمانين مكشطاً[مقدسة] إلى [هرمس] وهيراكلس.

Commentary

Brought to Tripoli during World War II, this inscription has been kept there as if coming from Marsa Diba (or Dila) in North-Western Tripolitania, whence its mention by Caputo, 1947 Caputo, G., 1947, Fasti archaeologici2, 314-1315, n. 2786, fig. 82 - see in bibliography and its edition by Reynolds-Ward-Perkins, 1951 Reynolds, J.M., Ward-Perkins, J.B., 1951, Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome [enhanced electronic reissue by G. Bodard, C. Roueché, London2009 , ] - see in bibliography . Pugliese Carratelli, not aware of the latter, published it 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 , 163 from Oliverio's papers and apparently from his own observation at Tripoli. It was Marengo's merit at Marengo, 1987 Marengo, S.M., 1987, Dedica di un ginnasiarca da Cirene (S.E.Cir. 163 = I.R.T. 848), Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Macerata (AFLM)20, 307-317 - see in bibliography to fill the gap and definitely establish the findspot with the help of an unpublished excavation report. Another report mentioning the find is now available at Luni, 2014 Luni, M., 2014, Attività di Carlo Anti, Luigi Pernier e Gaspare Oliverio (1923-1938), in M. Luni (ed.), La scoperta di Cirene. Un secolo di scavi, 1913-2013, Monografie di archeologia libica37, Cirene Atene d'Africa8, Roma, 123-156 - see in bibliography , p. 147.This item was thus duly deleted from the electronic enhanced issue of IRT 2009.

The restoration of ἱαράς, proposed by C. Dobias-Lalou at line 3 is far from sure, but seems plausible to fit the gap; the adjective would have a predicative value, reinforcing the meaning of the subaudible verb of dedication. S. Marengo's restoration νέας gives a slightly different meaning: the gymnasiarch would have provided new strigils as a necessary duty of his charge. However this does not account for the aorist participle (he was then out of charge) nor for the act of dedication (why new strigils offered to the godsn whence useless ?) ; moreover the restored word seems rather short for the space available.

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