Support: White marble rectangular block, broken off at right and left, also lacking the upper surface (w: 0.21 × h: 0.25 × d: 0.08).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.02-0.025; very carefully cut with serifs; still slanting sigma.

Date: Between 247 and 235 BC (Rosamilia) (lettering, prosopography).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 230. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[Untel] fils de Zôilos [étant prêtre, sur les revenus des oiseaux] et des chiots [a été consacré?] à Apollon [cet objet, qui?] pèse cent [drachmes] d'Alexandre.

English translation

[So-and-so] son of Zoilos [being priest, from the revenues of the birds] and puppies [was dedicated?] to Apollo [this object, which?] weighs hundred [drachmas] of Alexander.

Italian translation

[Essendo sacerdote il tale] figlio di Zoilos, [grazie ai proventi degli uccelli] e dei cuccioli di cane [fu dedicato?] ad Apollo [questo oggetto, che?] pesa cento [dracme ] di Alessandro.

Arabic translation

[فلان] بن زويلوس و[كونه كاهنًا، من عائئدات بيع الطيور] والجراء ، [أهدوا] لأبولو [هذا الغرض، الذي] يزن أويعادل قيمة 100 [دراخما] من عملة الإسكندر (الفضية).

Commentary

This fragmentary inscription was first published in IGCyr as a dedication to Apollo with the mention of a value in Alexander's silver currency. The vestiges of lines 1-2 were thought to belong to the names of several dedicants. Rosamilia 2023 now provides a much more convincing reading, parallel with IGCyr125600², which is near in date and has the same developed formulation, whereas two more ancient inscriptions, IGCyr020800² and IGCyr020900², with the same subject, are shorter. In them the priest is not acting as a dedicant and is mentioned as eponymous, providing a date.

This priest might be Karnedas son of Zoilos, a subscriber at IGCyr065210² i.70 or a relative.

Alexander's silver, both currency and weight, is mentioned at IGCyr125600² and in Ptolemaios' diagramma (IGCyr010800² l. 8), where the adjective has the form Ἀλεξάνδρειος also with a feminine noun.

The metal object placed above and dedicated should have been mentioned in the lacuna at the beginning of line 4 and might be, as Rosamilia suggests, φιάλαν. As this word should be followed by a relative pronoun, introducing the verb ἅγει, the space available is perhpas too short. Alternatively, there was a stop and no relative pronoun.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr127500 Dedication to Apollo

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr127500 Dedication to Apollo

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