Support: Two adjacent fragments of a white marble base broken off at both ends, with a smooth upper side (fragment a:w: 0.13 × h: 0.07; fragment b:w: 0.2 × h: 0.07 × d: 0.305-).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.025; very small omicron, chalice-shaped upsilon.

Date: Second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1928 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, in the Lesche, near the Temple of Artemis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 557. Fragment b seen in 1977 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum; fragment a not traced.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[Un tel] fils de [Mé]nandros (scil. a consacré) à Apollon[---?].

English translation

[So and so] son of [Me]nandros (scil. dedicated) to Apollo[---?].

Italian translation

[Il tale] figlio di [Me]nandros (scil. ha dedicato) ad Apollo[---?].

Commentary

Oliverio (Oliverio 1929) published only fragment a, but conveyed information about fragment b to Hondius, who published the whole in SEG, 9.93. During Pugliese Carratelli's and Morelli's visit in 1960 the latter registered only fragment b, whereas the former published the whole from Oliverio's drawing (not given), without identifying it with the inscription already published by Oliverio. C. Dobias-Lalou from 1976 on also found only fragment b. Fragment a is probably lost for ever.

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Fig. 1. Face of fgt a of igcyr018700 Dedication to Apollo

Fig. 2. Squeeze of fgt b of igcyr018700 Dedication to Apollo

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