Dedication of a fountain
IGCyr110000
Trismegistos ID: 738630
Source Description
Support
Five fragments belonging to three blocks out of six, forming the architrave of the colonnade of a monumental fountain: block 1 and 4 are lost; fragment a belongs to block 2; fragments b and c are joining and belong to block 3; fragment d belongs to block 4; fragment e is block 6. The smooth architrave, in Doric style, was surmounted by a drip edge end fascia (approximate dimensions of block 6: 1.65; 0.37; -).
Layout
Inscribed in one line on top of the face.
Letters
Estimated 0.08; careful lettering, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Ca. 335 B.C. (prosopography, lettering)
Findspot
The building was discovered by L. Pernier in 1923, excavated and reconstructed by S. Ensoli between 1988 and 1992 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL , in the Sanctuary of Apollo, as Fountain of Philothales .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou many times since 1993, in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Ensoli Vittozzi, 1996 Ensoli Vittozzi, S., 1996, I rifornimenti idrici del Santuario cireneo di Apollo dal IV sec. a.C. alla fine dell'età tolemaica, in L. Bacchielli, M. Bonanno Aravantinos (eds.), Scritti di Antichità in memoria di Sandro Stucchi, I, Studi Miscellanei29, Roma, 79-110 - see in bibliography , pp. 81-84 (excavations of the building and mention of the inscription), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 46.2208; a thorough publication by S. Ensoli for the architecture and G. Paci for the inscription is still awaited.
Text
Apparatus
1 Ensoli Vittozzi, 1996 Ensoli Vittozzi, S., 1996, I rifornimenti idrici del Santuario cireneo di Apollo dal IV sec. a.C. alla fine dell'età tolemaica, in L. Bacchielli, M. Bonanno Aravantinos (eds.), Scritti di Antichità in memoria di Sandro Stucchi, I, Studi Miscellanei29, Roma, 79-110 - see in bibliography ἱαριτεύ[ων] : ἱαριτεύ[σας]? (also possible)
French translation
Philothalès fils d'Iasôn [a consacré?] durant sa prêtrise.
English translation
Philothales son of Iason [dedicated?] while being priest.
Italian translation
Philothales figlio di Iason [ha dedicato?] quando era sacerdote.
Commentary
Some details are given here from the features that any visitor to the site might observe. The final publication should be more complete.
For block 5, long 1.65 metre, C. Dobias-Lalou suggests to restore either ἀνέθηκε or Ἀπόλλωνι
As noted by Ensoli, Philothales son of Iason is the priest on duty in IGCyr011400. He is also mentioned in a fragmentary list of priests (IGCyr094800).
About the first clearance of the Isieion, see Luni, 2014 Luni, M., 2014, Il primo decennio di scavi a Cirene. Ettore Ghislanzoni (1913-1923), in M. Luni (ed.), La scoperta di Cirene. Un secolo di scavi, 1913-2013, Monografie di archeologia libica37, Cirene Atene d'Africa8, Roma, 43-79 - see in bibliography , p. 64 and about the discovery of the inscription Bartolini, 2014 Bartolini, I.G., 2014, Documenti da Ettore Ghislanzoni a Gaspare Oliverio (1913-1923), in M. Luni (ed.), La scoperta di Cirene. Un secolo di scavi, 1013-2013, Monografie di archeologia libica37, Cirene Atene d'Africa8, Roma, 109-116 - see in bibliography , pp. 111, 115.
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