Support: Fragment of a white marble circular basin, (w: 0.125 × d: 0.135).

Layout: Inscribed on the rim, to be read from the centre (w: 0.085 × h: 0.03).

Letters: 0.025; no serifs, symmetrical nu, horse-shoe shaped omega.

Date: Probably first half of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1979 at Cyrene ➚: plausibly from the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 97. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat, Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] de/à Apollon [---].

English translation

[---] of/for Apollon [---].

Italian translation

[---] di/per Apollo [---].

Commentary

The name of the god is certain, but it cannot be decided whether it was here at the genitive or at the dative case.

This fragment appears on a photograph (not numbered) from the Department archive very plausibly earlier than World War II, where it stood alongside with IGCyr120300².

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Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr119800 Dedication to Apollo

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