Private honors (?)

IGCyr117200

Trismegistos ID: 738720

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations, 74-1110.

Support

Upper righthand corner of a large-grained white marble panel, chipped along all edges (0.014; 0.10;0.06).

Layout

Inscribed on the heavily encrusted face.

Letters

ca. 0.015.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps late second or early first century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1974 during the American excavations at Cyrene : Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore , in the surface fill of the fifth terrace.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Reynolds, 2012 , n. A.13 (no image) , whence SEG , 62.1795.6.

Text

[---] ίππου (vac. 1) [---] [ἀρχισωμ?]ατοφύ- (vac. 1)-[λα] [c. 1 - 3] [---]  - - - - - -

Apparatus

2 Reynolds, 2012  [ἀρχισωμ]ατοφύ[λα---]  : Reynolds, 2012  [σωμ]ατοφύ[λα---] 

French translation

(Un tel fils de)  [---] ippos, archisomatophylax  [---] .

English translation

(So-and-so son of)  [---] ippos, archisomatophylax  [---] .

Italian translation

(Il tale figlio di)  [---] ippos, archisomatophylax  [---] .

Commentary

The personal name at the genitive case at l. 1 seems to be the father's name, probably of the donor.

At line 2, the preserved letters are probably, as suggested by J.M. Reynolds, part of the title 'bodyguard', for which either σωματοφύλαξ or the upper rank ἀρχισωματοφύλαξ would be possible (the latter already attested at IGCyr015500). If so, the inscription might mention honors for a Lagid officer or emanating from him. Anyhow it would reinforce the feeling that the inscription dates before the end of the Hellenistic monarchy in Cyrenaica.

Creative Commons Attributions-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

All citation, reuse or distribution of this work must contain a link back to DOI: http://doi.org/10.6092/UNIBO/IGCYRGVCYR and the filename (IGCyr000000 or GVCyr000), as well as the year of consultation.

Images