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 : 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 and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique , 2011.648, whence SEG , 60.1835.

Text

Κλητόμαχος Πραξιάδα ἱαριτεύων ἀνέθηκε.

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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