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 : 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 , n. A.11 (no image), whence SEG , 62.1795.5.

Text

[---]  [Δημητρὶ] καὶ Κόρη[ι]

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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