Probably dedication to Kore
IGCyr107710
Trismegistos ID: 738606
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum (Storeroom of the American excavations), 77-920.
Support
Small piece from the top of fine-grained white marble base stained brown and heavily encrusted (0.055; 0.033;0.048).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.01 to 0.015; Reynolds mentions 'lunate epsilon', which is contradictory with the date attributed to the inscription.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1977 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore : area C13, 1, 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 , n. A.6 (no image).
Apparatus
French translation
[---] (a consacré) à Korè [---] .
English translation
[---] (dedicated) to Kore [---] .
Italian translation
[---] (ha dedicato) a Kore [---] .
Commentary
As suggested by Reynolds, the name of Kore would have stood at line 2 and most presumably in the dative case, as shown by many other inscriptions in the same context. It is impossible to decide whether the base was also dedicated to Demeter, but this remains quite plausible, owing to the very small width of the fragment compared with the usual dimensions of a base.
Having no image to check, we follow J. Reynolds for the suggested date.
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