Dedication to Apollo

IGCyr126800

Trismegistos ID: 738815

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 203.

Support

Lower left angle of a white marble panel, broken off at right and above (0.13; 0.15;0.04).

Layout

Inscribed on the face, each line disposed symmetrically along vertical axis.

Letters

0.022 carefully cut, with small serifs; smaller omicron, pi with protruding upper bar and left hasta not as tall as the average height.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Probably third 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

- - - - - -? Α[---]  ΤΕΛ Ἀπόλλ̣[ωνι] ἀνέ[θηκ] [c. 1 - 2]

Apparatus

French translation

 [---?]  A [---]   [---]  a/ont consacré à Apollon.

English translation

 [---?]  A [---]   [---]  dedicated to Apollo.

Italian translation

 [---?]  A [---]   [---]  ha/hanno dedicato ad Apollo.

Commentary

It is unclear whether one or more other lines were lost above this fragment. Line 1 had probably a personal name beginning with A .

For line 2, there are two possibilities: either another personal name beginning with Tel- or the participle (present or aorist) of the verb τελεσφορέω 'to accomplish the telesphoria '. On the whole we know of dedications made by one or more persons, while accomplishing the ceremony or after having accomplished it. In that group, the only instance where Apollo is mentioned is IGCyr108500.

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