Dedication

IGCyr129400

Trismegistos ID: 738841

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 435.

Support

Small fragment of a white marble block, broken off everywhere (0.115; 0.075;0.04).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.021, small serifs; the two oblique bars of kappa join under the middle of the hasta.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps third century B.C. (lettering)

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

- - - - - - [---]  [ἀνέ]θ̣ηκε [---]  [---]  ( vac. ) Α μ [---]  - - - - - -?

Apparatus

French translation

 [---]  a consacré  [---] .

English translation

 [---]  dedicated  [---] .

Italian translation

 [---]  ha dedicato  [---] .

Commentary

At line 2, we see the summit of a triangular letter followed by the upper left angle of a mu or nu. It is hence most probable that the first letter was an alpha. This is probably the beginning of a personal name.

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