Dedication to Demeter and Kore
IGCyr107500
Trismegistos ID: 738604
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum (Storeroom of the American excavations), 74-426.
Support
Fragment of fluted column of large-grained white marble (0.17; 0.14; -; diameter 0.055); broken along the edges and chipped on the surfaces.
Layout
Inscribed within two of the surviving flutes.
Letters
0.025; no serifs, dissymmetrical nu.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fifth or fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1973 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore : area E12/13, E, 2.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor.
Bibliography
Reynolds, 2012 Reynolds, J.M., 2012, Appendix: the inscriptions on stone and lead, in D. White (ed.), The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, final reports VIII: the sanctuary’s imperial architectural development, conflict with Christianity, and final days, Philadelphia - see in bibliography A.1 (no image).
Apparatus
2 ἀν[έθηκε] : Reynolds, 2012 Reynolds, J.M., 2012, Appendix: the inscriptions on stone and lead, in D. White (ed.), The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, final reports VIII: the sanctuary’s imperial architectural development, conflict with Christianity, and final days, Philadelphia - see in bibliography ἀν[έθηκε?]
French translation
[---] [---] phoros [a consacré?](ce monument) à [Dèm?]èter [et Korè?].
English translation
[---] To [Dem?]eter [and Kore? ---] phoros [dedicated?].
Italian translation
[---] A [Dem?]etra [e a Kore? ---] phoros [ha dedicato?].
Commentary
Although incomplete, the two first letters of line 1 were possibly alpha and tau, so that Δάματρι is very plausible; καὶ Κόραι may have followed, if the gap was only of one letter, but this is not compulsory.
At l. 3 Reynolds' idea that the verb stood at the end is quite convincing, as well as her idea that it was preceded by the name of the dedicator; what survives of the latter's mention might be either the end of a man's name (not followed by his father's name), e.g. Nikephoros as in IRCyr C.50 or of a title such as τελεσφόρος, which would correspond to the many dedications by τελεσφορέντες already known at Cyrene for Apollo and Artemis. It should be stressed that the compound adjective may be either a masculine of a feminine and would thus be appropriate also for Demeter and Kore's cult. However, if ever it is the adjective, that means that a large part has been lost at left and it is difficult to imagine what stood at the beginning of line 1.
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