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 : 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.

Text

- - - - - - [---?]  [Ἀπό?]λλω[νι ---?]  (vac.)

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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