Dedication

IGCyr124400

Trismegistos ID: 738793

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 38.

Support

White marble block,broken off everywhere but at right, (0.30; 0.16;0.135).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.027-0.032; slight serifs, slanting sigma, dotted theta.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Presumably found before World War II at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

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

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

[---]  νος [---]  άστω [---]  [ἀνέ]θηκε

Apparatus

French translation

 [---] nos (ou  [---]  [fils de]  [---] n) ( [---] ?) [fils de]  [---] astos a consacré.

English translation

 [---] nos (or  [---]  [son of]  [---] n) ( [---] ?) [son of]  [---] astos dedicated.

Italian translation

 [---] nos (o  [---]  [figlio di]  [---] n) ( [---] ?) [figlio di]  [---] astos ha dedicato.

Commentary

Two types of restoration may be suggested: 1. one name at the accusative and father's name at line 1, one name at the nominative and father's name at line 2, forming the dedication of the statue of the former by the latter; the space available would allow for the formula δεκάταν ἀνέθηκε; 2. one name at the nominative at line 1, his father's name at the genitive at line 2, forming an ordinary dedication by one single man and only the verb at line 3.

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