Name
IGCyr101300
Trismegistos ID: 738525
Source Description
Support
Upper right angle of a greyish marble rectangular block broken off at left, below and at back; a circular dowel hole on top favoured the breaking at left (0.50; 0.265;0.28).
Layout
Inscribed on front face, the only line preserved being centered along the vertical axis.
Letters
0.025; very slight serifs, pi with shorter right stroke and longer upper bar, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
First half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found between 1925 and 1928 by C. Anti at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo .
Later recorded Location
Seen by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo, on a wall South of Altar of Artemis .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1983 and again in 2001 by C. Dobias-Lalou at the same place.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Anti, Taccuini inediti Anti, C., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography , III.20, 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 , 178 (no image).
Apparatus
2 (no lost line mentioned in SECir, 178)
French translation
Aristippa [---] .
English translation
Aristippa [---] .
Italian translation
Aristippa [---] .
Commentary
The dowel hole is at such a place that the block might have belonged to a larger monument along with at least one similar block to its left. If so, another name might have stood on the other block.
With such a fragmentary context it is impossible to know whether Aristippa took part in a dedication or was honored with a statue.
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