Dedication to Apollo
IGCyr127400
Trismegistos ID: 738821
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 229.
Support
Fragment of a white marble rectangular block, broken off at right and left and also above (0.19; 0.29;0.11); the back shows anathyrosis at bottom (on a height of 0.075) and top (on a height of 0.03); on the top of the fragment, almost above the omicron, the bottom of a dowel hole, combined with the measure of the height, shows that only a small part of the block is lost on top.
Layout
Inscribed on the face (0.135; 0.255;) in two columns at ll. 1-2 and on the whole width at line 3.
Letters
0.026 (ll. 1-2) to 0.045 (l. 3), with small serifs; moderately slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably end of third of beginning of second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1979 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : plausibly from 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.
Apparatus
French translation
[---] makhos fils de [---] ès, [Un tel fils d'Un tel] (ont consacré) à Apollon.
English translation
[---] machos son of [---] es, [So-and-so son of So-and-so] (dedicated) to Apollo.
Italian translation
[---] machos figlio di [---] es, [il tale figlio del tale] (hanno dedicato) ad Apollo.
Commentary
The larger letters at line 3 show that this is a dedication to Apollo. The endings respectively of nominative and genitive preserved at line 1-2 allow to restore the layout with two columns mentioning two donors.
Tοο many names in -μαχος are known in Cyrenaica to allow any restoration.
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