Dedication to Athena
IGCyr101100
Trismegistos ID: 738523
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 3372.
Support
White marble base with plain mouldings on top and below on three sides, reddish from earth; probably re-used upside down, whence a dowel hole in the lower face; the front face is broken off below (0.53; 0.30;0.32).
Layout
Inscribed in three lines on front face (0.49; 0.105;).
Letters
0.025; no serifs, dotted theta, large circular letters, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found by G. Oliverio not after 1938 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo (so-called 'Piazzale' Oliverio).
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 and again 1997 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography XV.54, 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 , 175 (no image).
Apparatus
2 Ἡρακλείτω : 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
Ἡρακλείτου
3 [Ἀ]θ̣αν[αί]α̣ι̣ : 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
Ἀ̣θ̣αν[---]
3a
(after line 3, SECir, 175 has a lost line that is not confirmed by observation of the stone)
French translation
Theudôros fils d'Hèrakleitos (a consacré ce monument) à Athèna.
English translation
Theudoros son of Herakleitos (dedicated this monument) to Athena.
Italian translation
Theudoros figlio di Herakleitos (ha dedicato questo monumento) ad Atena.
Commentary
This inscription was known to Pugliese Carratelli only through a drawing of Oliverio's, not given in the publication.
The condition of the stone, observed again in 1997 by C. Dobias-Lalou, was worse than in 1982, so that line 3 is now completely lost. But the photograph and squeeze made in 1982 allow a better reading at that line. The name of the dedicant has a dialectal form, as well as the ending of his father's name. This would be surprising if he was an Athenian. Moreover, the faint traces of alpha and iota at the end of the line and the space at left before the first letter make much more plausible the name of the goddess Athena: the base was a dedication and was placed where she was worshipped inside Apollo's sanctuary.
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