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Dedication to Apollo

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0299002
Trismegistos ID: 738291

Source description

Support: Small fragment of an Attic ware cup (diameter 0.065).

Layout: Scratched under foot; to be read from center.

Letters: 0.004-0.006

Date: Fifth century BC

Findspot: Found in 1927 at Cyrene: South of Altar of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum Seen before 1990 by J.-J. Maffre in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio 1929, p. 143, n. 16, fig. 41, whence SEG, 9.310; IGCyr 029900 . Cf. Lazzarini 1976, p. 274, n. 697.b; Maffre 2007, p. 168, n. 1.

Text

Interpretive

Τ̣õ Ἀπό[λλο̄νος δεκάτα?].

Diplomatic

.ÕΑΠΟ[.............]

French translation

[Dîme?] d'Apollon.

English translation

Apollo's [tithe?].

Italian translation

[Decima?] di Apollo.

Commentary

As Maffre puts it, there might have been written Ἀπόλλο̄νος or Ἀπόλλο̄νι. If the latter, the word δεκάτα should be at the accusative.

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