Private honors
IGCyr109900
Trismegistos ID: 738629
Source Description
Support
Limestone base made out of two isodomic blocks with mouldings above and below and on top holes for four statues, placed along the back wall of a monumental naiskos (2.67; 0.29;0.595).
Layout
Inscribed on front face (high 0.13) between the mouldings: (a) beginning at 0.26 of left end, (b) at 0.49 of (a), (c) at 0.24 of (b), (d) at 0.21 of (c) and ending at 0.09 from right end, the whole in correspondance with the four places for statues.
Letters
0.03.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Last third of fourth century B.C. (lettering, prosopography)
Findspot
Excavated by L. Pernier in 1925 and again 1934 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : naiskos of the Carneadae .
Last recorded Location
Seen in situ by Dobias-Lalou in 2001.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
From Pernier, Taccuini inediti Pernier, L., Taccuini inediti, kept at the Università degli Studi di Macerata - see in bibliography , 1936, p. 173, Catani, 2007 Catani, E., 2007, Les objets sacrés du sanctuaire d'Apollon à Cyrène dans les journaux de fouille de Luigi Pernier tenus de 1925 à 1936, in C. Dobias-Lalou (ed.), Questions de religion cyrénéenne: actes du colloque de Dijon, 21-23 mars 2002, Karthago27, Paris, 103-129 - see in bibliography , pp. 106-111 (ph.; dr.), and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 2008.604, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 57.2029.
Cf. Dobias-Lalou, 2010 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2010, Sur quelques noms nouveaux de Cyrénaïque, in R.W.V. Catling, F. Marchand (eds.), Onomatologos: studies in Greek personal names presented to Elaine Matthews, Oxford, 92-101 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 60.1828.
Apparatus
French translation
Karnèdas fils d'Iasis, Iasis fils de Karnèdas, Itagos fils de Karnèdas, Krios fils de Karnèdas.
English translation
Karnedas son of Iasis, Iasis son of Karnedas, Itagos son of Karnedas, Krios son of Karnedas.
Italian translation
Karnedas figlio di Iasis, Iasis figlio di Karnedas, Itagos figlio di Karnedas, Krios figlio di Karnedas.
Commentary
For this monument, once erroneously called Offertory of the Mnesarchi (e.g. Goodchild, 1971 Goodchild, R.G., 1971, Kyrene und Apollonia, Zurich - see in bibliography , p. 123), see now Valentini, 1996 Valentini, W., 1996, Il naiskos dei Carneadi a Cirene: una nuova revisione dei dati di scavo, in L. Bacchielli, M. Bonanno Aravantinos (eds.), Scritti di Antichità in memoria di Sandro Stucchi, I, Studi Miscellanei29, Roma, 293-306 - see in bibliography . The inscriptions were published by Catani from Pernier's archive; for other information from the same provenance, see also Bartolini, 2014 Bartolini, I.G., 2014, Luigi Pernier a Cirene (1925-1936), in M. Luni (ed.), La scoperta di Cirene. Un secolo di scavi, 1013-2013, Monografie di archeologia libica37, Cirene Atene d'Africa8, Roma, 157-176 - see in bibliography , pp. 173-174.
Since the present inscription contains only four names at the nominative case in correspondance with four statues, the monument is undoubtedly honorific; standing in the sanctuary, it was dedicated to Apollo and this might have been mentioned in another inscription cut on a lost part of the naiskos.
The names Itagos and Krios were explained by Dobias-Lalou, 2010 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2010, Sur quelques noms nouveaux de Cyrénaïque, in R.W.V. Catling, F. Marchand (eds.), Onomatologos: studies in Greek personal names presented to Elaine Matthews, Oxford, 92-101 - see in bibliography .
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