Dedication

IGCyr117300

Trismegistos ID: 738721

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations, 74-949.

Support

Righthand end of a low base of medium-grained white marble, stained brown, with traces of a hook clamp on top; chipped along all edges (0.212; 0.163;0.051).

Layout

Inscribed on front face.

Letters

0.016; circular letters smaller.

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 , area C14.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Reynolds, 2012 , n. A.14 (no image) , whence SEG , 62.1795.7.

Text

[---] [π]ατρος [---] [ί]ππω [---]  ἀνέθηκε (vac. 1)

Apparatus

French translation

 [---] [p]atros,  [---]  fils de [i]ppos a consacré [à telle divinité?].

English translation

 [---] [p]atros,  [---]  son of [i]ppos dedicated [to such and such deity?].

Italian translation

 [---] [p]atros,  [---]  figlio di [i]ppos ha dedicato [alla tale divinità?].

Commentary

As Reynolds pointed out, the preserved letters at line 1 should not belong to the name of Demeter, because it cannot appear at the genitive case near the verbe 'dedicated'. So a personal name ending with -πατρος at the nominative is the most plausible.

At line 2, -ίππω is surely a father's name. Reynolds suggested that it belonged to the name at line 1. If so, line 3 could have only one name of deity, Demeter or rather the shorter Kore, in the lost part, but surely not both, as Reynolds thought possible.

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