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Dedication to Apollo

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0300002
Trismegistos ID: 738292

Source description

Support: Very small fragment of an Attic ware vase (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Scratched on an undefined part.

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: Fifth century BC

Findspot: Found in 1927 at Cyrene: between the Altar of Apollo and the Temple of Jason Magnus.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.

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

Bibliography

Oliverio 1929, p. 143, n. 17, fig. 41, whence SEG, 9.311; IGCyr 030000 . Cf. Lazzarini 1976, p. 274, n. 697.c; Maffre 2007, p. 168, n. 2.

Text

Interpretive

[Τὀπ]όλο̄[νος δεκάτα?].

Diplomatic

[...]ΟΛΟ̄[.........]

Apparatus

1: [Τὀ̄π]όλο̄[νοςδεκάτα?]: [Τὀ̄π]όλο̄[νος] Maffre 2007; [Τὀ̄π]όλο̄[νι] Maffre 2007 [Τὀ̄π]όλο̄[νος δεκάταν] Oliverio 1929

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; we add δεκάτα, which is not compulsory and would be at the accusative if the god's name was at the dative.

Lazzarini took the readings of SEG without mentioning any restoration.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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