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 pleiades; HGL , probably from the Hellenistic Gymnasium, later Caesareum .
Date
Perhaps second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1979 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : 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.
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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