EpiDoc XML:
IGCyr0641002
Trismegistos ID:
6186
Source description
Support: White marble base, cut off on left side for re-use as an ambon step and partly broken off at the same side (w: 0.54- × h: 0.58 × d: 0.80).
Layout: Inscribed on the face with space between letters varying at each line.
Letters: 0.03 at ll. 1-2 and 8-10, 0.04 at ll. 3-7.
Date: Ca. 345 BC (lettering).
Findspot: Found in 1929 in the Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia ➚: re-used in baptistery of East Church.
Place of origin: Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia ➚.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: outside the ancient Cyrene Museum.
Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961, p. 40, n. 20 (from †Oliverio's papers), ph. 42 fig. 35, and Robert, BE, 1962.368, whence SEG, 20.707; Reynolds 1976, n. 5, whence SEG, 27.1125bis; IGCyr 064100 ➚. Cf. Laronde 1987, pp. 99, 106-107, 118, 121, whence SEG, 38.1877; Dobias-Lalou 2003, whence SEG, 53.2029; Rosamilia 2023, pp. 160-161 (prosopography, date), pp. 361-362, number 85 (text).
Text
Apparatus
1: [Θεα]ρ̣ο̣ὶ IGCyr, Rosamilia 2023: [θεαρ]ο̣ί̣ Reynolds 1976; [θεαρο]ὶ Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961
3: [c. 5 - 6]ς̣ Reynolds 1976, IGCyr: [Χαῖνυ]ς̣ Rosamilia 2023; [Εύκλείδα]ς Laronde 1987; [---]ς̣ Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961
4: [c. 6 - 7]ν̣: [c. 6 - 7]η̣ς Rosamilia 2023; [c. 7 - 8] IGCyr; [c. 10] Reynolds 1976; [---] Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961
5: [c. 6 - 7]τος Rosamilia 2023: [Κάλλι]π̣π̣oς Laronde 1987; [c. 6 - 7]τ̣ος Reynolds 1976; [---]τ̣ος Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961
6: [---]ς Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961, Reynolds 1976: [Εὔανδρο]ς Rosamilia 2023; [c. 5 - 6] IGCyr
7: [c. 5]ν̣η̣ς Reynolds 1976: [Ἀλκαμέ]νης Rosamilia 2023; [c. 4]νης IGCyr; [---]νης Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961
8: [τῶι] Ἀ̣πόλλωνι: Ἀ̣πόλλωνι Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961; (vac.)[Ἀ]πόλλωνι Reynolds 1976
9: [τῶι? Σω]τῆρι: [Σω]τῆρι Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961; (vac.)Σ̣[ω]τῆρι Reynolds 1976
French translation
Les théores envoyés à Delphes, [---]s fils de Paraibatas, [---]n fils de Sôgénès, [---]tos fils d'Aiglanôr, [---]s fils d'Euryptolémos, [c. 4]nès fils de Philokômos, ont consacré (scil. ce monument) à Apollon [Sô?]tèr.
English translation
The theoroi sent to Delphi, [---]s son of Paraibatas, [---]n son of Sogenes, [---]tos son of Aiglanor, [---]s son of Euryptolemos, [c. 4]nes son of Philokomos, dedicated (scil. this monument) to Apollo [So?]ter.
Italian translation
I theoroi inviati a Delfi, [---]s figlio di Paraibatas, [---]n figlio di Sogenes, [---]tos figlio di Aiglanor, [---]s figlio di Euryptolemos, [c. 4]nes figlio di Philokomos, hanno dedicato (scil. questo monumento) ad Apollo [So?]tere.
Commentary
Only the patronymics of all five thearoi are preserved. Laronde 1987, proposed to identify the son of Paraibatas at l. 3 with a man elsewhere known as priest of Apollo, but the restitution seems to long for the space available. Rosamilia 2023 in turn suggests to identify him as the son of a commander at IGCyr0151002. Given the frequency of the name Paraibatas, both hypotheses seem far-fetched.
At l. 4, before the initial sigma of the father's name Σωγἐνευς there is only part of a vertical hasta, hence a name ending with Ν.
At l. 5, Rosamilia 2023 is right in turning down the proposal of Laronde 1987, p. 99, who thought that traces of two pis were discernable. Conversely, we cannot follow Rosamilia for lines 6 and 7 because of the very poor vestiges of the names, although he suggests to identify here sons of two damiergoi.
At l. 8, there is space for an article before the name of Apollo; at l. 9, the epithet Soter is surprising for Apollo in Cyrenaica, but may be related to his protection against sea dangers; the space available would be filled by the article.
Alternatively, the dedication might have been made to two gods, the second being the well known Zeus Soter, but the space would only allow for [Ζηνὶ Σω]τῆρι and this would not fit well with the article τῶι at l. 8.
This dedication by the thearoi sent to Delphi probably occurred during the ceremony known as prothearia at IGCyr1092002.
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