Tithe
IGCyr130700
Trismegistos ID: 738854
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, 559.
Support
Small fragment of a white marble block, broken off everywhere but at bottom (0.075; 0.20;0.16).
Layout
Inscribed on the face.
Letters
L. 1 0.045; l. 2 0.03 with small serifs; no typical shape.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps third or first half of second century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1977 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded; plausibly from the Sanctuary of Apollo .
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.
Apparatus
French translation
[---] kh [---] (a consacré ce monument) au titre de la dîme.
English translation
[---] ch [---] (dedicated this monument) as a tithe.
Italian translation
[---] ch [---] (ha dedicato questo monumento) come decima.
Commentary
The small vestige of line 2 is sufficient to show that we have here a tithe. The larger xhi of line 1, as it cannot belong to the name of Apollo, is certainly part of the dedicant's mention, namely of his father's name, whereas his own name, wholly lost, would have stood at the preceding line.
At line 2, given the smaller lettering, another word should have stood after δεκάτα, either the verb 'dedicated' or the name of Apollo.
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