Support: Two non-adjacent fragments of a black stone (lava?) plate: fragment a (diameter at least 0.37); fragment b (dimensions, as given in SECir: width 0.43; height 0.195).

Layout: Inscribed on the flat rim (high 0.04), to be read from outside.

Letters: 0.023; slightly dissymetrical nu, very open, flat and small omega.

Date: Perhaps fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Fragment a found at an unknown date at Cyrene ➚; fragment b found by G. Oliverio before 1935, exact findspot unrecorded for both fragments.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 519 (fragm. a). Fragment a observed by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum; fragment b not found.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (fragment a, CDL) and from previous editor (fragment b).

Apparatus

French translation

[---]ôn fils d'Ag[---] (scil. a consacré cet objet) à Apollon.

English translation

[---]on son of Ag[---] (scil. dedicated this) to Apollo.

Italian translation

[---]on figlio di Ag[---] (scil. ha dedicato questo) ad Apollo.

Commentary

Although fragment b seems to be lost, the dimensions, the shape and the rare material of the plate make very plausible that both fragments belong together.

We give for fragment b the dimensions published from Oliverio's papers by Pugliese Carratelli, who does not seem to have found it. However their proportions do not match the photograph given in the publication. Either there is an error or Oliverio knew of an adjacent fragment that had not been photographed.

The inventory number given here is that of fragment a.

A joint publication of both fragments was presented by C. Dobias-Lalou in a conference held at Urbino in October 2015 in memory of Mario Luni to be published in a volume scheduled for 2017 and much delated.

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Images

Fig. 1. Squeeze of fragment a of igcyr096100 Dedication to Apollo

Fig. 2. Fragment b of igcyr096100 Dedication to Apollo

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