Tithe for Apollo
IGCyr104400
Trismegistos ID: 738566
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 397.
Support
White marble block, broken off at left and right and below (0.08; 0.08;20.5).
Layout
Inscribed in two lines on top of the face.
Letters
0.015; smaller omicron, symmetrical nu, small omicron, open and middle-size omega.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1960 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : plausibly in the Sanctuary of Apollo .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias Lalou Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Morelli in 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 , 250 (no image).
Apparatus
1 [- max.4 -] [μ]αχος ⋮ [- max.5 -] : 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 [---] αχος [---]
French translation
[---] makhos [fils d'Untel] (a consacré ce monument) à Apollon au titre de la dîme.
English translation
[---] machos [son of so-and-so] (dedicated this monument) to Apollo as a tithe.
Italian translation
[---] machos [figlio del tale] (ha dedicato questo monumento) ad Apollo come decima.
Commentary
The restorations are quite sure because of the recurrent formulation of such offerings of the tithe.
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