EpiDoc XML:
IGCyr0067002
Trismegistos ID:
738174
Source description
Support: Rectangular white marble base with three holes on upper side, vestiges of a bronze statue (w: 0.061 × h: 0.21 × d: 0.46).
Layout: Inscribed on front face.
Letters: 0.03; careful and regular letters covering the whole surface.
Date: Last third of the fourth century BC (prosopography).
Findspot: First seen by P. Negri in 1827 at Cyrene ➚: in the Sanctuary of Apollo, Temple of Apollo.
Place of origin: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, no inv. number. Copied by J. Vattier de Bourville in 1848 at the same place. Copied by R.M. Smith and E.A. Porcher in 1861 at the same place. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou on September 1st, 2001 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Seen by E. Rosamilia in 2010 at the same place.
Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Letronne – Bourville 1848, p. 374, n. v and Vattier de Bourville 1850, p. 584; from a copy by [Negri], Sardinian consul in Tripoli, CIG 5133 with addenda in vol. IV; Smith – Porcher 1864, n. 3, p. 109 and pl. 77, whence SGDI 4840 (Blass); DGE 233; Pugliese Carratelli in SECir, 138 (no image); IGCyr 006700 ➚ Rosamilia 2023, pp. 379-380, number 106 (text).
Cf. Laronde 1987, p. 116.
Text
Apparatus
1: Π̣ολιάνθης: Πολιάνθης Smith – Porcher 1864, SGDI, DGE; +ΟΛ+ΑΝΟΗΣ CIG; [Π]ολ⸢υ⸣άνθης Letronne – Bourville 1848; ΟΛΙΑΝΘΗΣ Vattier de Bourville 1850
French translation
Polianthès, fils d'Anaxis a consacré comme dîme à Apollon (scil. la statue) de son père Anaxis fils de Zeuximakhos.
English translation
Polianthes, son of Anaxis dedicated as a tithe to Apollo (scil. the statue) of his father Anaxis son of Zeuximachos.
Italian translation
Polianthes, figlio di Anaxis ha dedicato come decima ad Apollo (scil. la statua) del padre Anaxis, figlio di Zeuximachos.
Arabic translation
بوليناثيس بن أناكسيس كرس تمثال والده، أناكسيس بن زيوكسيماخوس كضريبة العشر لأبولو
Commentary
Franz for CIG, vol. III used Negri's copy and mentioned only in the addenda of CIG, vol. 4 Letronne's reading from Vattier de Bourville's copy. A small part of the initial pi at line 1 still survives and may have been complete when Smith and Porcher saw it. The stone in 2001 was placed beneath another projecting one, thus the bad quality of our photograph, which is however the first one to be published.
For the family of Polianthes and his date, see Laronde 1987, p. 119, stemma 5.
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