Dedication to Apollo

IGCyr119300

Trismegistos ID: 738742

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 95+101+107+224.

Support

Four non-adjacent fragments of a white marble circular basin, (fragment a: 0.21; 0.12; -; fragment b: 0.05; 0.09; -; fragment c: 0.10; 0.04; -; fragment d: 0.09; 0.08; -).

Layout

Inscribed on the rim (wide 0.035).

Letters

0.027; without serifs; broadly open alpha, still lighlty dissymmetrical nu, slightly smaller omicron.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Probably first half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1979 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C.Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

fragment a
[---]  [Ἀ]πόλλ̣[ων ---] 
fragment b
[---] Ν[---] 
fragment c
[---] ΚΑ[---] 
fragment d
[---] Ι[---] 

Apparatus

French translation

 [---]  de/à Apollon  [---] .

English translation

 [---]  of/to Apollo  [---] .

Italian translation

 [---]  di/ad Apollo  [---] .

Commentary

At fragment a, the name of the god is certain, but it cannot be decided whether it was here at the genitive or at the dative case.

Fragment c might contain δεκάτα but this cannot be pushed forward.

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