Dedication
IGCyr111100
Trismegistos ID: 738641
Source Description
Support
Square panel, probably of white marble, with attachment holes in upper and right edges and also a circular hole on the lower left side (0.345; 0.345; -).
Layout
Inscribed on front face in four lines with axial layout.
Letters
0.025 (circular letters); apicated letters, guide-lines; smaller circular letters, dotted theta, xi without vertical stroke, slanting sigma, widely open upsilon.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
About the middle of the third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found between 1934 and 1938 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : most probably in the Sanctuary of Apollo .
Present Location
Only known from the photograph in Breccia's archive. Probably lost.
Text constituted from
Transcription from photograph (ER).
Bibliography
Rosamilia, 2010 Rosamilia, E., 2010, Un'iscrizione inedita da Cirene nell'Archivio Breccia, Studi ellenistici24, 289-296 - see in bibliography and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 2011.648, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 60.1835.
Apparatus
French translation
Klètomakhos fils de Praxiadas a consacré (ce monument) durant sa prêtrise.
English translation
Kletomachos son of Praxiadas dedicated (this monument) while being priest.
Italian translation
Kletomachos figlio di Praxiadas ha dedicato (questo monumento) quando era sacerdote.
Commentary
This inscription is known only through a photograph in the archive of A.E. Breccia (Pisa).
As pointed by Rosamilia, this inscription was probably cut by the same mason as IGCyr098000.
On behalf of historical considerations, Rosamilia dates this inscription between 260 and 250 B.C.
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