Pederastic acclamation
IGCyr116100
Trismegistos ID: 738712
Source Description
Support
Rock-cut row of seats (fourteenth from below) of the theatre (height 0.30).
Layout
Scratched on the front face in an ascending line (width 0.65).
Letters
0.125 (omicron) to 0.14 (alpha), letters scratched and irregular, gamma not clear, epsilon with slightly descending bars.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of fifth or beginning of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found by M. Luni between 2003 and 2005 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Southern Extra-Mural Sacred zone , Theatre 5 .
Last recorded Location
Observed by A. Inglese in 2010 in situ.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor.
Bibliography
Inglese, 2011 Inglese, A., 2011, Inscription inédite du théâtre du sanctuaire de Dèméter, Comptes rendus des séances: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (CRAI)2011, 273-281 - see in bibliography , pp. 273-281 and fig. 15, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 61.1556. Cf. Inglese, 2013 Inglese, A., 2013, Il santuario di Demetra a Cirene. Le iscrizioni, in Inglese, A., Epigrammata 2. Definire, descrivere, proteggere lo spazio, in ricordo di André Laronde. Atti del convegno di Roma, 26-27 ottobre 2012, Tivoli, 231-251, 437-439 - see in bibliography , pp. 238-239 and fig. 18 p. 436.
Apparatus
French translation
Hagètôr (est) beau !
English translation
Hagetor (is) fine!
Italian translation
Hagetor (è) bello!
Commentary
This is an acclamation of a type more often preserved on vases than on monuments. However, the lettering leaves no doubt that it is a graffito and no official mention.
The name Ἁγήτωρ is attested for a military officer about 335 B.C. (IGCyr084000), who might be a grand-son or another related person.
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