Support: Grey marble base with footprints on top, recut at left (w: 0.82 × h: 0.28 × d: 0.52).

Layout: Inscribed in one line on the face.

Letters: 0.03, carefully cut with small serifs ; low bar of alpha, snon-slanting sigma.

Date: Second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1927 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, re-used as crowning block of retaining wall, behind the Temple of Hekate.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen in 1983 and again in 2010 by C. Dobias-Lalou in situ, in the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[Un tel fils de ---]khès (scil. a consacré) comme dîme à Apollon.

English translation

[So and so son of ---]ches (scil. dedicated) as a tithe to Apollo.

Italian translation

[Il tale figlio di ---]ches (scil. ha dedicato) come decima ad Apollo.

Commentary

The usual formula leads to suspect that χευς is the end of the father's name of the dedicant at the genitive case. The most plausble guess would be Ἐπιτυχής, which is in fact very rare before the Roman imperial period. That is why we cautiously prefer not to restore it here.

Besides the partial loss of the inscription, the placement of the hole for the right foot of a statue near the left end of the stone shows that the block was later recut or, perhaps, that a second block was joined to this one at left.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr018800 Tithe for Apollo

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