Dedication to Apollo
IGCyr119800
Trismegistos ID: 738747
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 97.
Support
Fragment of a white marble circular basin, (0.125; -;0.135).
Layout
Inscribed on the rim, to be read from the centre (0.085; 0.03; -).
Letters
0.025; no serifs, symmetrical nu, horse-shoe shaped omega.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably first half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1979 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : plausibly from the Sanctuary of Apollo .
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.
Apparatus
French translation
[---] de/à Apollon [---] .
English translation
[---] of/for Apollon [---] .
Italian translation
[---] di/per Apollo [---] .
Commentary
The name of the god is certain, but it cannot be decided whether it was here at the genitive or at the dative case.
This fragment appears on a photograph (not numbered) from the Department archive very plausibly earlier than World War II, where it stood alongside with IGCyr120300.
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