Dedication to Demeter and Kore
IGCyr116700
Trismegistos ID: 738716
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations, 78-224.
Support
Small fragment of lower righthand corner of a base of medium-grained white marble with badly damaged moulding above (0.27; 0.18;0.20).
Layout
Inscribed in one line below the moulding.
Letters
0.04; smaller omicron.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1978 during the American excavations at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore , area F16, 2, 1.
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.11 (no image), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 62.1795.5.
Apparatus
French translation
[Untel] (a consacré ce monument) à [Dèmèter] et Korè.
English translation
[So-and-so] (dedicated this monument) to [Demeter] and Kore.
Italian translation
[Il tale] (ha dedicato questo monumento) a [Demetra] e Kore.
Commentary
There should have stood at left at least the name of the dedicator, either on the very base if it was wide enough or on an adjacent block.
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