Possibly dedication to Apollo

IGCyr124800

Trismegistos ID: 738797

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 62.

Support

Fragment of a whitemarble panels broken at left, right and bottom; on top, a hole for attachment is preserved at the point of break; the face is severely damaged (0.17; 0.16;0.075).

Layout

Inscribed on the face, which is much erased.

Letters

0.02, lightly cut, with serifs; non-slanting sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Presumably found before World War II at Cyrene : presumably in 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

[---] ΜΟ ι [---]  [---] τ̣[---]  [---] σ ι [---]  [---] [Ἀπ]όλλ[ωνι ---?] 

Apparatus

French translation

 [---]  à Apollon [---?] .

English translation

 [---]  to Apollo [---?] .

Italian translation

 [---]  ad Apollo [---?] .

Commentary

The only word that may be isolated is the name of Apollo, presumably at the dative case, which implies that the inscription is a dedication and probably ended with that word.

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