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Dedication to the gods of the agora

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0200002
Trismegistos ID: 106101

Source description

Support: Fragmentary white marble rectangular base broken at left and right (w: 0.41 × h: 0.30 × d: 0.57).

Layout: Inscribed on front face.

Letters: 0.035 at ll. 1-2, 0.018 at l. 3.

Date: Between ca. 275 and 265 BC (Rosamilia) (prosopography).

Findspot: Found before 1924 at Cyrene: agora.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, no inv. number. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2001 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Ghislanzoni 1925, pp. 411-413, whence SEG, 9.112; Laronde 1987, p. 117; Dobias-Lalou 1998, whence SEG, 48.2055; IGCyr 020000 . Cf. Chamoux 1958, p. 580, whence SEG, 17.795; Stucchi 1975, p. 91; Marquaille 2003, pp. 27-28, and Dobias-Lalou, BE, 2005.620, whence SEG, 53.2028; Rosamilia 2023, p. 102 (prosopography), p. 205-206 (date), p. 371, number 97(text).

Text

Interpretive

[Νικόβ]ωλος Ἰάσο[νος]
[βασιλέ]ως Mάγα ἱαριτ[εύων]
[τοῖς θεοῖς τ]οῖς ἐν τᾶι ἀγορᾶι ἀνέθ[ηκε].

Diplomatic

[.....]ΩΛΟΣΙΑΣΟ[...]
[......]ΩΣMΑΓΑΙΑΡΙΤ[....]
[..........]ΟΙΣΕΝΤΑΙΑΓΟΡΑΙΑΝΕΘ[...]

Apparatus

1: [Νικόβ]ωλος: [Πολύβ]ωλος Chamoux 1958, Stucchi 1975; [---β]ωλος Ghislanzoni 1925

French translation

[Nikob]olos fils d'Iasôn, alors qu'il était prêtre du [roi] Magas, a consacré (scil. ce monument) [aux dieux] de l'agora.

English translation

[Nikob]olos son of Iason, being priest of [king] Magas, dedicated (scil. this monument) [to the gods] of the agora.

Italian translation

[Nikob]olos figlio di Iason, quando era sacerdote del [re] Magas, ha dedicato (scil. questo monumento) [agli dèi] dell'agora.

Commentary

For king Magas and his cult, see Chamoux 1958 and Marquaille 2003.

The priest's name is restored with certainty by comparison with IGCyr0652002, l. 1.

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