EpiDoc XML:
IGCyr0307002
Trismegistos ID:
738299
Source description
Support: Dark grey marble block, broken away below, reconstituted from four adjacent fragments (a and b pasted together); the back is cut obliquely, perhaps for its original use (all together w: 0.49 × h: 0.195 × d: 0.09 at top, 0.17 below).
Layout: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.035; carefully cut, with very slight serifs; calice-shaped upsilon, slanting sigma.
Date: First half of third century BC (lettering).
Findspot: Fragment c was found during Oliverio's excavations in 1928 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, in a small building to the North of the Temple of Artemis; the other fragments are of unknown provenance.
Place of origin: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 250 (fragm. a+b); 513 (fragm. c); 166 (fragm. d). Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.
Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Fragment d: Oliverio 1930, p. 205, n. 27, fig. 62, whence SEG, 9.323; the other fragments were not published before IGCyr 030700 ➚, whence SEG 67.1491.
Text
Apparatus
1: [---]χος Oliverio 1930
2: [---]νευς Oliverio 1930
French translation
Mnasarkhos fils de Kartisthenès [a consacré?] à Apollon.
English translation
Mnasarchos son of Kartisthenes [dedicated?] to Apollo.
Italian translation
Mnasarchos figlio di Kartisthenes [ha dedicato?] ad Apollo.
Commentary
Although both names are not rare in Cyrenaica, this man might be akin to the homonymous thearodokos of the Delphians mentioned in the great list Plassart 1921, IV.16 and registered in PP 14980. This list is now dated from the third century BC (J. Oulhen, unpublished thesis of 1992).
The lettering of this inscription is very similar to that of IGCyr0639002 and IGCyr0631002, thus placing our inscription at a date not too late in the third century. Therefore, it is tempting to assume that Mnasarchos was either the thearodokos himself or his grandfather.
Oliverio gave no date for the lettering; the indication 'first century AD' given in SEG is not sustainable.
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