Dedication, perhaps on occasion of a telesphoria

IGCyr128400

Trismegistos ID: 738831

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 313.

Support

Fragment of a small white marble rectangular block, broken off at right and left (0.13; 0.078;0.10).

Layout

Inscribed on the face in two lines.

Letters

0.015 with very slight serifs; carefully cut; no typical shape.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Probably second half of fourth or first half of third century B.C.

Findspot

Found before 1977 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

 [c. 7 - 9] Ἱ̣ππι [c. 1 - 2]  [c. 7 - 9]ων ἀνέθηκε

Apparatus

1 Ἱ̣ππι [c. 1 - 2] : Ἱ̣ππί[α] : (or) Ἵ̣ππι[ος]

2  [c. 7 - 9]ων : [ἱαριτεύ]ων : (or) [τελεσφορέ]ων

French translation

 [---]  fils de Hippi [---]  a consacré au cours de [ sa prêtrise] ((ou) en [ accomplissant la telesphoria ]).

English translation

 [---]  son of Hippi [---]  dedicated while [being priest] ((or) while [accomplishing the telesphoria ]).

Italian translation

 [---]  figlio di Hippi [---]  ha dedicato quando era [ sacerdote] ((o) quando [compiva la telesphoria ]).

Commentary

The personal name at line 1 might be either Hippis or Hippias, both attested in Cyrenaica. Given its place, it should be the father's name of the dedicant. We do not know of any priest whose father had this name, so we cannot decide between the two possibilities of common formulas with different lengths proposed in the apparatus for the beginning of line 2.

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