Private honors
IGCyr102000
Trismegistos ID: 738530
Source Description
Support
Rectangular white marble base, with two holes on top for attachment of a statue; front face broken off at left (0.81; 0.28;0.645).
Layout
Inscribed on the front face (0.57; 0.28;) at 0.055 below upper ridge.
Letters
0.022; very slight serifs, slightly smaller omicron, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
First studied by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , West of the Strategeion .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2001 at the same place.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
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 , 186 (no image).
Text
Apparatus
1 [c. 6] χ also consonant with κ ος(vac. 1) : 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 [---] κ also consonant with χ ος
French translation
[---] kos (ou khos) fils d'Elaiitas.
English translation
[---] kos (or chos) son of Elaiitas.
Italian translation
[---] kos (o chos) figlio di Elaiitas.
Commentary
This Elaiitas might be the son of the priest who dedicated a bench on the Fountain Terrace (IGCyr080500) and he might also be related to a later Elaiitas (IGCyr096700).
The first letter partly seen by G. Pugliese Carratelli (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 , 186) was not visible to C. Dobias-Lalou in 2001 and can neither be traced on the squeeze.
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