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 pleiades; HGL : 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
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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