Support: Two adjacent fragments of a rectangular blue-grey marble block broken off at right; both fragments may be joined at rear (w: 0.315 × h: 0.09 × d: 0.095).

Layout: Inscribed along the upper ridge.

Letters: 0.018.

Date: Between the second half of the fourth and the first half of the third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1928 at Cyrene ➚: in the Southern angle of the furnace in the Trajanic Baths.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 207 (unpublished fragment) and 293. Seen in 1976 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Aris[t]ônumos fils de T[---] (scil. a consacré) à [A]pollon [---].

English translation

Aris[t]onymos son of T[---] (scil. dedicated) to [A]pollo [---].

Italian translation

Aris[t]onymos figlio di T[---] (scil. ha dedicato) ad [A]pollo [---].

Commentary

The missing word at end might be either ἀνέθηκε "dedicated" or δεκάταν "as a tithe", which was preferred by Oliverio 1930, but is not unescapable. In fact the squeeze shows a very tiny part of the upper angle of a letter that might be either an alpha or a delta; this cannot help to decide between the two possibilities.

With a very careful layout the tripuncts of lines 1 and 2 are strictly corresponding to each other. Consequently the father's name was 7 characters long, whichever the word lost at line 2.

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Fig. 1. Squeeze of igcyr018200 Dedication to Apollo by Aristonymos

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