Support: Small marble base (w: 0.46 × h: 0.20 × d: 0.44).

Layout: Inscribed on front face.

Letters: 0.02; no detail known.

Date: Admittedly Hellenistic (context).

Findspot: Found before 1935 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, probably on the lower terrace.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960. Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

Apparatus

French translation

Antipatros fils d'Artémôn (scil. a consacré ce monument) à Apollon au titre de la dîme.

English translation

Antipatros son of Artemon (scil. dedicated this monument) to Apollo as a tithe.

Italian translation

Antipatros figlio di Artemon (scil. ha dedicato questo monumento) ad Apollo come decima.

Commentary

This inscription is known only from a hasty sketch in Oliverio's papers, which Pugliese Carratelli did not reproduce.

Although entering into a long series of dedications of tithe, this one has an unusual order of words: Ἀπόλλωνι δεκάταν usually stands at the end.

Pugliese Carratelli was probably right to interpret the father's name as he did; although not attested in Cyrenaica, Ἀρτέμων is well known elsewhere; as a short form of theophoric names containing Artemis' name, its use is not surprising at Cyrene; only its form has a light foreign tint, as a true Cyrenaean name would begin with Ἀρταμ(ι)-.

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