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Tithe to Apollo

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0032002
Trismegistos ID: 738134

Source description

Support: Fragmentary base of a cup, probably a bolsal, Attic black-glazed ware (dimensions not registered).

Layout: Scratched under base.

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: Perhaps, third century BC (monument type).

Findspot: Found before 1938 at Cyrene: probably Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by G. Oliverio before 1938 in Shahat. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors (CDL).

Bibliography

SECir, 49, 3 (ph.); Dobias-Lalou 1970, pp. 247-248, n. 15; Maffre 2007, n. 18; IGCyr 003200 .

Text

Interpretive

[---? δε]κάτα

Diplomatic

[---?..]ΚΑΤΑ

French translation

Dîme.

English translation

Tithe.

Italian translation

Decima.

Commentary

In the missing part, there is hardly enough space for Ἀπὀλλωνος. So δεκάτα may have stood alone, like in IGCyr00304002.

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