Support: Fragmentary grey marble block, broken off at left and back, with front, right and upper faces well smoothed (w: 0.105 × h: 0.065 × d: 0.145); there is a circular hollow on the upper face.

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on front face (a); line 2 extends on right face (b).

Letters: 0.012 to 0.015; eta, iota, kappa and rho are taller than theta, nu, sigma, whereas omicron is still smaller; epsilon with three short bars, dotted theta, nu shorter at right and leaning towards right.

Date: First half of fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1960 at Cyrene ➚: plausibly from the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 267. Seen by G. Pugliese Carratelli in 1960 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[Untel] fils de [---ô]r a consacré (scil. ce monument) [---] à Apollon.

English translation

[So-and-so] son of [---o]r dedicated (scil. this monument) [---] to Apollo.

Italian translation

[Il tale] figlio di [---o]r ha dedicato (scil. questo monumento) [---] ad Apollo.

Commentary

The ending -ορος can only be the genitive ending of a name in ωρ, presumably a compound in -ανωρ, father's name of the wholly lost name of the dedicant.

At line 2, the last three letters were cut on the right side, presumably by lack of space; however, for sake of symmetry, the line might perhaps have begun with three letters cut on the lost left side. Anyway, the letters are much more pressed together at line 2 than at line 1, so that the space necessary for the six lost letters of Ἀπόλλωνι would not allow to restore a name and part of a father's name at line 1. Thus something else should have stood at the beginning of l. 2, perhaps naming the dedicated object, which micht be a basin.

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Fig. 1. Front face of igcyr099800 Dedication to Apollo

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr099800 Dedication to Apollo

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