Support: Right part of white marble rectangular block broken at left and slightly chipped off at right end (overall w: 0.33 × h: 0.145 × d: 0.18).

Layout: Inscribed just under the upper rim (width 0.22).

Letters: 0.022; careful lettering with very slight serifs.

Date: End of fourth or beginning of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found between 1928 and 1929 at Cyrene ➚: amidst filling material in Trajanic Baths.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 246. Seen in 1976 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[Un tel fils de K]lètas [pour Apollon] comme dîme.

English translation

[So and so, son of K]letas [for Apollo] as a tithe.

Italian translation

[Il tale, figlio di K]letas [ad Apollo] come decima.

Commentary

For this kind of blocks the usual dimensions are 0.52 x 0.145, so that the missing part should be about 58% of the whole block and a restoration Ἀπόλλωνι at l. 2 fits well.

For the father's name, Κλήτας would be the shortest restoration to be found and leaves room for names of four letters, such as Νέων, Λέων, Δίων.

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Fig. 1. Squeeze of igcyr018100 Tithe for Apollo

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