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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Dedication to Apollo

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0013002
Trismegistos ID: 738110

Source description

Support: Fragmentary bronze in the shape of a feline foot (w: 0.052 × h: 0.094).

Layout: Presumably engraved in the surface.

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: Fourth quarter of the sixth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1938 at Cyrene: Sanctuary of Apollo, beneath the retaining wall of the Fountain Terrace.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Never seen by IGCyr team

Text constituted from: Editor's transcription.

Bibliography

Oliverio , XV.81, whence SECir, 173 IGCyr 001300 .

Text

Interpretive

[---]ΙΟ Ἀπόλλọ̄(νος?)

Diplomatic

[---]ΙΟΑΠΟΛΛ.

French translation

[---] d'Apollon.

English translation

[---] of Apollo.

Italian translation

[---] di Apollo.

Commentary

Published by Pugliese from a drawing found in Oliverio's papers. The former mentions an archaic shape for alpha, pi and lambda but does not give Oliverio's drawing.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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