Support: Grey marble rectangular block broken off at left (w: 0.315 × h: 0.09 × d: 0.28).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on the face.

Letters: 0.02; no serifs; symmetrical nu, slanting sigma, open omega.

Date: Probably third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found by Pernier in September 1930 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, in the area of the later Temple of Apollo Nymphagetes.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 near the Fountain of Apollo. Seen by Dobias-Lalou in 1982 inside the Strategeion, which was used as a storeroom of the Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[Untel] fils de Télésandros (scil. a consacré ce monument) à Apollon au titre de la dîme.

English translation

[So-and-so] son of Telesandros (scil. dedicated this monument) to Apollo as a tithe.

Italian translation

[Il tale] figlio di Telesandros (scil. ha dedicato questo monumento) ad Apollo come decima.

Commentary

Several men named Telesandros are mentioned in inscriptions of the fourth and the third century. As we have here only the father's name, no prosopographical relation may be proposed.

The exact findspot, not mentioned in our first edition (2017), is provided here thanks to a communication by Enzo Catani from Pernier's notebooks.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr104300 Tithe for Apollo

Fig. 2. Drawing of igcyr104300 Tithe for Apollo

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