EpiDoc XML:
IGCyr0636002
Trismegistos ID:
6104
Source description
Support: Fragment of a grey marble panel broken on top and at left, probably only chipped off at right (w: 0.115 × h: 0.16 × d: 0.06).
Layout: Inscribed on face: three (or more ?) columns of two lines each, then two lines on the whole width.
Letters: Lines 1 to 6: 0.02; line 7: 0.026; line 8: 0.011; slight serifs, sigma with parallel outer strokes.
Date: Second half of second century BC
Findspot: Found before 1938 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.
Place of origin: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 86. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.
Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Fraser 1958, pp. 118-119, n. 11, pl. XIII, 11, whence SEG, 18.737; again Morelli, SECir, 259 (no image) as unpublished; IGCyr 063600 ➚. Cf. Marengo 1985, whence SEG, 36.1461; Rosamilia 2014, n. 13, whence SEG, 64.2012.
Text
Apparatus
5: [---]ιλέα: [---]η̣λέα Fraser 1958; [---]η̣λέα [---] SECir, Rosamilia 2014
6: [---ί]π̣πω: [Εὐί?]π̣πω Fraser 1958, Rosamilia 2014; [---ί]π̣πω [---] SECir
7: [---]τω: [---]τῶ[ν] Fraser 1958; [---]ΤΩ+[---] SECir
French translation
[Un tel fils d'un tel, un tel fils d'un tel], [---]ilea fille de [---]ippos (scil. ont consacré la statue d') [un tel fils de ---]tos.
Oeuvre d'[un tel fils d'un tel et/ou de telle cité].
English translation
[So-and-so son of So-and-so, So-and-so son of So-and-so], [---]ilea daughter of [---]ippos (scil. dedicated the statue of) [So-and-so son of ---]tos.
Made by [So-and-so son of So-and-so and/or from such city].
Italian translation
[Il tale figlio del tale, il tale figlio del tale], [---]ilea figlia di [---]ippos (scil. hanno dedicato la statua del) [tale figlio di ---]tos.
Opera [del tale figlio del tale e/o della tal città].
Arabic translation
[فلان ابن فلان و فلان ابن فلان]، [---] ايليا ابنة [---] ايبوس (أهدت تمثال) [فلان ابن فلان ---] توس. عُمِلَ من قبل [فلان ابن فلان أو مدينة ما].
Commentary
The most plausible restoration implies that there were three dedicants, whose father's name was written below (see for example IGCyr0979002); however, if the artist was mentioned with name + father's name + ethnic, four dedicants are not impossible.
Anyhow there seems to be no text lost at right (contra Morelli in SECir).
Differently, in Fraser's view, lines 1 and 2 bore the names of two persons honoured by one single person whose name was written on line 3.
The first preserved letter at line 1 being an iota and not an eta, feminine names like Ἀκευσιλέα, Ἀναξιλέα or Κυδιλέα, all three already attested in Cyrenaica would be possible guesses.
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Maps
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