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 : 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.

Text

[---?]  [Ἀπόλ]λων [c. 1 - 2] [---?] 

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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