EpiDoc XML:
IGCyr0010002
Trismegistos ID:
738107
Source description
Support: Fragment of a greyish, brown-glazed clay crater (w: 0.075 × h: 0.036).
Layout: Graffito on the rim (w: 0.075 × h: 0.016 × d: 0.036).
Letters: 0.007.
Date: Ca. 550 BC (monument type).
Findspot: Probably found before 1961 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo.
Place of origin: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Seen by L. Gasperini in 1961 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from: Editor's transcription.
Bibliography
Gasperini 1995, n. 1 (= Gasperini – Arnaldi – Marengo 2008, pp. 320-324), whence SEG, 44.1541, 1; IGCyr 001000 ➚. Cf. Gasperini – Gasperini 19971998 (=Gasperini – Arnaldi – Marengo 2008, pp. 388-400, whence SEG, 47.2164; Maffre 2007, n. 27; Dobias-Lalou 2015; Marengo 2016, p. 167; Rosamilia 2023, pp. 382-383, number 109 (text).
Text
Apparatus
1: Ϙόρακί omicron written above rho
French translation
[Untel] m'a dédié à [Apollon] Korax.
English translation
[So-and-so] dedicated me to [Apollo] Korax.
Italian translation
[Il tale] mi ha dedicato ad [Apollo] Korax.
Arabic translation
فلان وفلان أهدوني للمؤله أبوللون كوراكس
Arabic translation
فلان وفلان أهدوني للمؤله [أبوللون] كوراكس
Commentary
According to Callimachus, Hymn II, vv. 65-68, Apollo, in the guise of a crow, would have guided the founder Battos and his fellows to Cyrene. This archaic graffito shows that Callimachus' information, gathered in his homecity, remained vivid.
As pointed out by Rosamilia 2023, the lacuna being very large, several names of dedicatns may have been lost at left and the verb might thus be at the plural.
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