Private honors
IGCyr102100
Trismegistos ID: 738531
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
Two adjacent fragments of a white marble base with two holes for attachment of a statue on top; recut at left, so that the hole for the right foot of the statue is partly lost; also recut at back on the right with a large notch; chipped off at right of upper edge and more severely below in the middle (fragment a 0.28; 0.28;0.61; fragment b 0.242; 0.283;0.64).
Layout
Inscribed carefully on the front face in two lines and a third one, smaller, below, all of them centred along vertical axis.
Letters
ll. 1-2: 0.035; l. 3: 0.012; slight serifs, slanting sigma, widely open upper part of upsilon, rather widely open omega.
Place of Origin
Date
Ca. 250 B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Fragment b was found in 1958 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the agora , reused in the substructures of the fence of the Audience Hall (Praetorium) that in the fourth century A.D. replaced the Augusteum ; no provenance is known for fragment a, which was registered in Oliverio's papers, whence found before 1937.
Later recorded Location
Studied by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2001 and again in 2010 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Last recorded Location
Studied by E. Rosamilia in 2010 at the same place.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL and ER).
Bibliography
Fragment a : Oliverio, Taccuini inediti Oliverio, G., Taccuini inediti - see in bibliography , II.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 , 187, fig. 138; both fragments: Gasperini, 1965 Gasperini, L., 1965, in S. Stucchi, L'agorà di Cirene. I. I lati Nord ed Est della platea inferiore, Monografie di archeologia libica7, Roma, passim [= , Iscrizioni greche e latine dell'agorà di Cirene, 1-53] - see in bibliography , p. 316, pl. LVII.3 (= Gasperini, 2008 Gasperini, L., and Arnaldi, A., Marengo, S.M. (eds.), 2008, Scritti di epigrafia greca, Ichnia10, Tivoli - see in bibliography , p. 44, fig. 18,3 ), and again Gasperini, 1967 Gasperini, L., 1967, Le epigrafi, in S. Stucchi, Cirene 1957-1966: Un decennio di attività della missione archeologica italiana a Cirene, Quaderni dell'Istituto italiano di cultura di Tripoli3, Tripoli, 165-189 [= , 75-104] - see in bibliography , pp. 168-169, n. 16, fig. 200 (= Gasperini, 2008 Gasperini, L., and Arnaldi, A., Marengo, S.M. (eds.), 2008, Scritti di epigrafia greca, Ichnia10, Tivoli - see in bibliography , p. 82, n. 16, fig. 16), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 58.1890; Gasperini, 2008 Gasperini, L., and Arnaldi, A., Marengo, S.M. (eds.), 2008, Scritti di epigrafia greca, Ichnia10, Tivoli - see in bibliography , pp. 537 and 542. Cf. Rosamilia, 2014 Rosamilia, E., 2014, Firme di scultori della Cirenaica: un'analisi del corpus, in Luni, M. (ed.), Cirene greca e romana, Monografie di archeologia libica36, Cirene Atene d'Africa7, Roma, 89-106 - see in bibliography , n. 6.
Apparatus
3 Rosamilia, 2014 Rosamilia, E., 2014, Firme di scultori della Cirenaica: un'analisi del corpus, in Luni, M. (ed.), Cirene greca e romana, Monografie di archeologia libica36, Cirene Atene d'Africa7, Roma, 89-106 - see in bibliography «Θεύμανδ̣»[ρος] : Gasperini, 2008 Gasperini, L., and Arnaldi, A., Marengo, S.M. (eds.), 2008, Scritti di epigrafia greca, Ichnia10, Tivoli - see in bibliography Θεύμανδ̣[ρος] : 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 , Gasperini, 1965 Gasperini, L., 1965, in S. Stucchi, L'agorà di Cirene. I. I lati Nord ed Est della platea inferiore, Monografie di archeologia libica7, Roma, passim [= , Iscrizioni greche e latine dell'agorà di Cirene, 1-53] - see in bibliography [---] Θευμάνδ̣[ρω]
French translation
Lysis fils de Polybôlos. Oeuvre de Theumandros.
English translation
Lysis son of Polybolos. Theumandros was the artist.
Italian translation
Lysis figlio di Polybolos. Opera di Theumandros.
Commentary
A link with the priest of the lists of subscribers (IGCyr065200 and IGCyr065210), also mentioned at IGCyr020000), suggested by Gasperini, is now irrelevant, as his name is now completely known as Νικόβωλος.
Rosamilia rightly points that the artist's name is cut in a shallow depression, although it is not possible to guess whether a former inscription was erased because of a change of sculptor or because of a mere mistake of the stone-cutter.
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