Support: Left end of the white Parian marble architrave of a door, with sculptured cymatium (w: 0.91 × h: 0.114; reconstructed width 2.28).

Layout: Inscribed under the Aeolic frieze.

Letters: Height unknown; very small omicron, slanting nu.

Date: Fourth century BC (context, lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1917 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, Temple of Artemis (2nd phase).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou many times between 1976 and 2010, replaced in the Temple of Artemis.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

La porte (scil. a été consacrée par Untel).

English translation

The door (scil. was dedicated by So-and-so).

Italian translation

La porta (scil. è stata dedicata dal tale).

Arabic translation

الباب (يفهم ضمنياً أنه: أهدي من قبل فلان وفلان).

Commentary

About ὀπά see Robert 1955 and especially at Cyrene Rosamilia 2023.

We have here the word and its support restituted in its original function: the architrave of the door leading from the pronaos to the cella of the 2nd-phase Artemision.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr020700 Dedication (to Artemis)

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