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Dedication

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0929002
Trismegistos ID: 738448

Source description

Support: Limestone altar with compartment, broken in two adjoining pieces (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on the front side, just under the upper edge.

Letters: Height unknown; roughly cut, awkwardly aligned; smaller omicron.

Date: Perhaps, fourth century BC

Findspot: Found in 1990 by F.A. Mohamed, J.M. Reynolds and L. Bacchielli at Taurguni.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Mohamed 1996, p. 128, and Mohamed 2003 (ph.), and Dobias-Lalou, BE, 2004.452, whence SEG, 53.2070; IGCyr 092900 .

Text

Interpretive

Ἀπόλλων[ος].

Diplomatic

ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ[..]

Apparatus

1: Ἀπόλλων[ος] Dobias-Lalou, BE: Ἀπόλλων[ι] Mohamed 2003

French translation

(scil. Autel) d'Apollon.

English translation

(scil. Altar) of Apollo.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare) di Apollo.

Commentary

The names of gods on such altars are rather owner's marks than dedications, hence the restored genitive case rather than the dative of the first editor.

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