Support: Fragment of a blue-grey marble block, broken off on all sides (w: 0.105 × h: 0.09 × d: 0.07).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.025, slight serifs.

Date: Probably third or second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1976 at Cyrene ➚: presumably Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 278. Seen in 1976 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---] à Apollon [---?].

English translation

[---] to Apollo [---?].

Italian translation

[---] ad Apollo [---?].

Commentary

As this line is the last one, we may suppose that it closed a dedication formula with the name of Apollo, possibly but not necessarily preceded or followed by the word for 'tithe' or the verb 'dedicated'.

Nevertheless, we should not quite exlude that the preserved letters belonged rather to a personal compound name beginning with Ἀπολλο-. The lack of context prevents from deciding securely.

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Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr127600 Dedication to Apollo (?)

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