Tithe for Apollo
IGCyr106950
Trismegistos ID: 738595
Source Description
Support
Fragmentary Attic black-glazed ware cup, probably bolsal on Maffre's opinion (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Scratched under foot on the outer black band, to be read from the centre.
Letters
Height unknown; smaller delta, omicron and omega, oblique nu.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably first half of fourth century B.C.
Findspot
Found by S. Stucchi in 1963 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : agora , west side, in a sounding inside the Temple of Apollo Archegetes (initially called temple of Demeter).
Last recorded Location
Seen by L. Gasperini in 1963 in Shahat : in the Storeroom of the Italian missions .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor.
Bibliography
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 , p. 167, n. 10, fig. 194 (= Gasperini, 2008 Gasperini, L., and Arnaldi, A., Marengo, S.M. (eds.), 2008, Scritti di epigrafia greca, Ichnia10, Tivoli - see in bibliography , p. 79, n. 10, fig. 10). Cf. Stucchi, 1967 Stucchi, S., 1967, I lavori della Missione archeologica italiana a Cirene dal 1963 al 1965, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)5, 143-149 - see in bibliography , pp. 143-145; Laronde, 1987 Laronde, A., 1987, Cyrène et la Libye hellénistique. Libykai historiai de l’époque républicaine au principat d’Auguste, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 169, footnote 13; Purcaro, 2001 Purcaro, V., 2001, L'agorà di Cirene II.3 L'area meridionale del lato Ovest dell'agorà, II.3, Monografie di archeologia libica24, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 31; Maffre, 2007 Maffre, J.J., 2007, La dévotion à Apollon d'après des graffiti inscrits sur des fragments de céramique grecque trouvés à Cyrène, in C. Dobias-Lalou (ed.), Questions de religion cyrénéenne: actes du colloque de Dijon, 21-23 mars 2002, Karthago27, Paris, 166-183 - see in bibliography , n. 26.
Apparatus
French translation
Dîme consacrée à Apollon [par?] [---] .
English translation
Tithe dedicated to Apollo [by?] [---] .
Italian translation
Decima dedicata ad Apollo [da?] [---] .
Commentary
For a parallel with the accusative δεκάταν and the dative of the god's name with the subaudible verb ἀνέθηκε and no dedicant's name, see IGCyr030200 and probably also IGCyr006400 and IGCyr107800.
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