Support: White marble panel broken off at left and right (w: 0.27 × h: 0.16 × d: 0.045).

Layout: Inscribed in three lines on front face.

Letters: 0.025; no serifs, dotted theta, large circular letters, nu slightly shorter at right, phi with oval loop at mid-height.

Date: Fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1960 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 261. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[Untel] fils de [---]as a consacré à Athèna [--- et] la barrière [---] au cours de sa prêtrise.

English translation

[So-and-so] son of [---]as dedicated to Athena [--- and] the barrier [---] while being priest.

Italian translation

[Il tale] figlio di [---]as ha dedicato ad Atena [--- e] lo steccato [---] quando era sacerdote.

Commentary

The right end of the lines may be calculated from the missing letters at line 3. Hence the lost part at left would have been much larger, so as to allow a name and father's name at line 1 and probably the name of one or several other objects dedicated in the gaps. This dedication to Athena by a priest (i.e. eponymous priest of Apollo) is a clue for the existence of a shrine or temple of Athena inside the sanctuary of Apollo, a fact that may also be guessed from the mention of expenses for her priestess in an account of damiergoi (IGCyr011600²).

On behalf of the probable dimensions of the panel, Rosamilia 2023 suggests that it should have been fixed upon a building such as a portico or a fountain. In the gap at left of line 3, he plausibly suspects an adjective mentioning the material (wood or stone) of the barrier, duely preceded by τὰ.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr098400 Dedication

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr098400 Dedication

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