Dedication to Hermes

IGCyr120400

Trismegistos ID: 738753

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 108.

Support

Fragment of a white marble circular basin, (wide 0.11; deep 0.055).

Layout

Inscribed on the rim (high 0.03), to be read from outside.

Letters

0.015 (mu, epsilon) to 0.02 (rho); not very regular cutting, with serifs; lightly curved lines of mu, rho with rather small loop.

Place of Origin

Cyrene , probably from the Hellenistic Gymnasium, later Caesareum .

Date

Perhaps second 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

[---]  Ἑ̣ρμε[ῖ ---] 

Apparatus

French translation

 [---]  à Hermès  [---] .

English translation

 [---]  for Hermes  [---] .

Italian translation

 [---]  per Hermes  [---] .

Arabic translation

[---] لأجل هيرميس [---]

Commentary

The name of Hermes at the dative case (and in koine form) is a clue for a dedication in the gymnasium, which was still at the time located where the Caesareum later stood. The name of Heracles possibly stood in the lost part, as both deities are usually mentioned together as protectors of the gymnasium.

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