Dedication by a priest
IGCyr108700
Trismegistos ID: 738617
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.
Support
Two adjacent fragments of a white marble panel, later re-cut at left and re-used for IGCyr108900 (0.255; 0.295;0.06).
Layout
Inscribed on front face in three lines with axial layout.
Letters
0.02 at ll. 1-2, 0.25 at l. 3; slight serifs, dotted theta, non slanting sigma, phi with oval loop.
Place of Origin
Cyrene pleiades; HGL , probably from the Sanctuary of Apollo .
Date
First half of second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1993 in a votive depot South of Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the area of the Wadi el Aish .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1993 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Mohamed-Reynolds-Dobias-Lalou, 2007 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., Dobias-Lalou, C., 2007, Recently discovered inscriptions at Cyrene, in L. Gasperini, S. Marengo (eds.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'antichità: atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Roma-Frascati, 18-21 dicembre 1996, Ichnia9, Tivoli, 17-48 - see in bibliography , pp. 38-39, n. 5, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 57.2007, A. Cf. Dobias-Lalou, 1998 Dobias-Lalou, C., 1998, Ἄμναμμος nom cyrénéen du «petit-fils», Revue des Études Grecques (REG)111, 403-417 - see in bibliography , pp. 411-412, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 48.2059 a.
Apparatus
1 [Εὐ?]ά̣νθης : Mohamed-Reynolds-Dobias-Lalou, 2007 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., Dobias-Lalou, C., 2007, Recently discovered inscriptions at Cyrene, in L. Gasperini, S. Marengo (eds.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'antichità: atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Roma-Frascati, 18-21 dicembre 1996, Ichnia9, Tivoli, 17-48 - see in bibliography [Πολι]άνθης : Mohamed-Reynolds-Dobias-Lalou, 2007 Mohamed, F.A., Reynolds, J., Dobias-Lalou, C., 2007, Recently discovered inscriptions at Cyrene, in L. Gasperini, S. Marengo (eds.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'antichità: atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Roma-Frascati, 18-21 dicembre 1996, Ichnia9, Tivoli, 17-48 - see in bibliography [Εὐ]ά̣νθης
French translation
Euanthès fils d'Euphris (a consacré ce monument) durant sa prêtrise.
English translation
Euanthes son of Euphris (dedicated this monument) while being priest.
Italian translation
Euanthes figlio di Euphris (ha dedicato questo monumento) quando era sacerdote.
Commentary
As pointed by edd. prr., Polianthes is a very common name in Cyrenaica, whereas Euanthes is hitherto not attested. However the axial layout of the inscription induces to prefer the latter, which would have lost the same two initial letters as the father's name and would also fit the three letters missing at line 3, which is also longer at right.
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