Support: Lower left angle of a white marble panel, broken off at right and above (w: 0.13 × h: 0.15 × d: 0.04).

Layout: Inscribed on the face, each line disposed symmetrically along vertical axis.

Letters: 0.022 carefully cut, with small serifs; smaller omicron, pi with protruding upper bar and left hasta not as tall as the average height.

Date: Probably third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1979 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 203. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---?] A[---] [] a/ont consacré à Apollon.

English translation

[---?] A[---] [] dedicated to Apollo.

Italian translation

[---?] A[---] [] ha/hanno dedicato ad Apollo.

Commentary

It is unclear whether one or more other lines were lost above this fragment. Line 1 had probably a personal name beginning with A.

For line 2, there are two possibilities: either another personal name beginning with Tel- or the participle (present or aorist) of the verb τελεσφορέω 'to accomplish the telesphoria'. On the whole we know of dedications made by one or more persons, while accomplishing the ceremony or after having accomplished it. In that group, the only instance where Apollo is mentioned is perhaps IGCyr108500².

Additional commentary for the second edition: Rosamilia 2023 suggests a reconstruction of this text in the frame of the telesphoria, where the dedicant would be mentioned before the honoured person. This would be contrary to the usual order.

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