Dedication
IGCyr111000
Trismegistos ID: 738640
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, inv. number unknown.
Support
Fragment of the rim of a black-glazed cup (0.015; 0.013; -).
Layout
Scratched on the outside.
Letters
0.003 to 0.005.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps sixth century B.C. (context, lettering)
Findspot
Found by M. Luni between 2004 and 2007 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : temple of the Dioscuri on the Acropolis ridge (once said "tempio ipetrale").
Present Location
Not observed by IGCyr team
Text constituted from
Transcription from photograph (SMM).
Bibliography
Marengo, 2008 Marengo, S.M., 2008, Dédicaces aux Dioscures et autres graffiti. Les fragments gravés, Comptes rendus des séances: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (CRAI)2008, 26-36 [=] - see in bibliography , p. 36, n. 9 (= Marengo, 2010 Marengo, S.M., 2010, Dédicaces aux Dioscures et autres graffiti. Les fragments gravés, in A. Laronde, J. Leclant (eds.), Journée d'hommage à François Chamoux, Paris 11 janvier 2008, Paris, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 120-130 [=] - see in bibliography , p. 130, n. 9), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 58.1839.9.
Apparatus
1 ( vac. ) ΤΑ ( vac. ) : Marengo, 2008 Marengo, S.M., 2008, Dédicaces aux Dioscures et autres graffiti. Les fragments gravés, Comptes rendus des séances: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (CRAI)2008, 26-36 [=] - see in bibliography [δεκά?]τα(vac.)
French translation
Intraduisible.
English translation
Not usefully translatable.
Italian translation
Untraducibile.
Arabic translation
غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد
Commentary
The findspot and context show clearly that the dedication was made to the Dioscuri. Marengo's suggestion to read the word 'tithe' is not impossible, although this sort of dedication is mainly known for Apollo. See however at IGCyr004200 a tithe for Demeter. But to judge from the photograph, there is a space before the two letters, which makes the restoration uncertain to C. Dobias-Lalou's mind.
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