Unclear
IGCyr116500
Trismegistos ID: 738714
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations, 71-715.
Support
Fragment from the rim and body of a bowl of white medium-grained marble (0.12; 0.075;0.02).
Layout
Inscribed a) on the body, b) on the rim.
Letters
0.025.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1971 during the American excavations at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore , area F11.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor.
Bibliography
Reynolds, 2012 Reynolds, J.M., 2012, Appendix: the inscriptions on stone and lead, in D. White (ed.), The extramural sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya, final reports VIII: the sanctuary’s imperial architectural development, conflict with Christianity, and final days, Philadelphia - see in bibliography , n. A.9 (no image).
Apparatus
French translation
a) Intraduisible.
b) Consacré par [Untel et Untel].
English translation
a) Not usefully translatable.
b) Dedicated by [So-and-so and So-and-so].
Italian translation
a) Intraducibile.
b) Dedicato dal [ tale e dal tale].
Commentary
Such marble bowls were often dedicated in sanctuaries of Cyrene. Only fragments of them have been found up to now (see for instance IGCyr118900). Most of them are inscribed only on the rim. Reynolds suggested that both textparts were linked together, (a) giving with its final iota the name of the deity (Demeter or Kore) to whom the bowl was dedicated and (b) having the end of the verb of dedication; however, a gap inside this verb would be rather puzzling. It is difficult to decide without any image.
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