Dedication to Apollo (?)
IGCyr127600
Trismegistos ID: 738823
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 278.
Support
Fragment of a blue-grey marble block, broken off on all sides (0.105; 0.09;0.07).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
0.025, slight serifs.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably third or second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1976 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : presumably Sanctuary of Apollo .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1976 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Not previously published.
Apparatus
French translation
[---] à Apollon [---?] .
English translation
[---] to Apollo [---?] .
Italian translation
[---] ad Apollo [---?] .
Commentary
As this line is the last one, we may suppose that it closed a dedication formula with the name of Apollo, possibly but not necessarily preceded or followed by the word for 'tithe' or the verb 'dedicated'.
Nevertheless, we should not quite exlude that the preserved letters belonged rather to a personal compound name beginning with Ἀπολλο-. The lack of context prevents from deciding securely.
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