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Dedication of a tithe to Apollo

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0177002
Trismegistos ID: 106089

Source description

Support: Grey marble block with footprints on upper side, along which the back of the stone is broken; also broken off at upper left angle of front side (w: 0.445 × h: 0.175 × d: 0.21).

Layout: Inscribed: both lines began at left end of front side; slight vestiges of guidelines.

Letters: 0.015.

Date: Beginning of the third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1926 at Cyrene: Sanctuary of Apollo, South-West of the Temple of Apollo .

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen in 1983 by C. Dobias-Lalou at Cyrene: in opisthodomos of the Temple of Apollo.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio 1928, p. 328, n. 8 (ph.), whence SEG, 9.83; IGCyr 017700 .

Text

Interpretive

[Ψ]ά̣φων
Ἐρμοκρέοντος
δεκάταν ἀνέθηκε.

Diplomatic

[.].ΦΩΝ
ΕΡΜΟΚΡΕΟΝΤΟΣ
ΔΕΚΑΤΑΝΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ

Apparatus

1: [Ψ]ά̣φων: [Ψά]φων Oliverio 1928

French translation

Psaphon fils d'Hermokreon a consacré comme dîme.

English translation

Psaphon son of Hermokreon dedicated as a tithe.

Italian translation

Psaphon figlio di Hermokreon ha dedicato come decima.

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Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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