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Dedication to Demeter and Kore

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1167002
Trismegistos ID: 738716

Source description

Support: Small fragment of lower righthand corner of a base of medium-grained white marble with badly damaged moulding above (w: 0.27 × h: 0.18 × d: 0.20).

Layout: Inscribed in one line below the moulding.

Letters: 0.04; smaller omicron.

Date: Perhaps second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1978 during the American excavations at Cyrene: Enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, area F16, 2, 1.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the American excavations, 78-224. Seen by J. Reynolds at Shahat: in the Storeroom of the American excavations. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Reynolds 2012, n. A.11 (no image), whence SEG, 62.1795.5; IGCyr 116700 .

Text

Interpretive

[--- Δημητρὶ] καὶ Κόρη[ι]

Diplomatic

[---.......]ΚΑΙΚΟΡΗ[.]

French translation

[Untel] (scil. a consacré ce monument) à [Dèmèter] et Korè.

English translation

[So-and-so] (scil. dedicated this monument) to [Demeter] and Kore.

Italian translation

[Il tale] (scil. ha dedicato questo monumento) a [Demetra] e Kore.

Commentary

There should have stood at left at least the name of the dedicator, either on the very base if it was wide enough or on an adjacent block.

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