Dedication to Demeter
IGCyr116600
Trismegistos ID: 738715
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations, 78-708.
Support
Fragment from lefthand side of a low base of medium-grained white marble with oval depression on top for offering, damaged along all edges (0.299; 0.11;0.242).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.025; smaller circular letters.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps second half of third of first half of second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1978 during the American excavations at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore , area D14/E14.
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.10 (no image), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 62.1795.4.
Apparatus
1 Θ[---] : 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 θ[εσμοφόρωι?] : 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 θ[εᾶι καὶ Κόραι?]
French translation
Kleu [---] (fille ou fils) d'Aiglanôr [a consacré?] (ce monument) à Dèmèter Th [---] en ex-voto.
English translation
Kleu [---] (daughter or son) of Aiglanor [dedicated?] (this monument) to Demeter Th [---] ex voto.
Italian translation
Kleu [---] (figlia o figlio) di Aiglanor [ha dedicato?] (questo monumento) a Demetra Th [---] in voto.
Commentary
Reynolds preferred the restoration of the epithet Θεσμοφόρος, hitherto not attested in Cyrenaica, rather than the mention θεά, which she also thought to be without parallel. In fact the latter is now known on the statue-base of the nearby temple (see IGCyr114800). If so, there would be space also for Kore's name but the whole formula seems somewhat awkward and it seems preferable to leave the question open.
Most dedications in this sanctuary were made by women, however some men also offered dedications. It is thus impossible to restore the name at line 2.
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