Support: Lower left angle of a reddish marble block, broken off at right, above and at back, the left edge also partly missing (w: 0.20 × h: 0.17 × d: 0.08).

Layout: Inscribed on the face, with a space of 0.11 below (see also commentary).

Letters: 0.011-0.017; very carefully cut, without serifs; circular letters smaller, strokes of alpha and lambda sightly curved.

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

Findspot: Found before 1977 at Cyrene ➚: plausibly from the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 515. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 and again 1997 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

[---]ath[---] (scil. a consacré) à Apollon.

English translation

[---]ath[---] (scil. dedicated) to Apollo.

Italian translation

[---]ath[---] (scil. ha dedicato) ad Apollo.

Commentary

It cannot be decided whether the block was about 0.24 wide or twice more. If the former, the preserved line 1 would have the father's name of a dedicant whose own name stood in the lost part and then only the name of Apollo would stay at line 2. If the stone was wider, it might have been inscribed only on the two preserved lines, mentioning at line 1 the own name and father's name of the dedicant and at line 2 after the name of Apollo either the word for 'tithe' or the verb 'dedicated'.

At line 1, the two preserved letters belong to a personal name. Given the space available, there are two possibilities amongst the already attested names of the Hellenistic period: either one of the many names built upon Ἀγαθ(ο)- or the less common Νίκαθλος, which in fact would better fit the space.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr130400 Dedication to Apollo

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr130400 Dedication to Apollo

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