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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Dedication to Apollo

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0017002
Trismegistos ID: 738114

Source description

Support: Foot of cup; Attic black-glazed ware, red under foot (diameter 0.065).

Layout: Scratched under foot in a circle.

Letters: 0.004-0.006.

Date: First half of the fifth century BC (monument type).

Findspot: Found at Cyrene: Sanctuary of Apollo, under the Trajanic Baths.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by G. Oliverio in 1928. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio 1930, p. 244, n. 42, fig. 90, whence SEG, 9.309; Jeffery 1961, p. 324, n. 21; Dobias-Lalou 1970, p. 246, n. 11; Lazzarini 1976, p. 274, n. 697 a 2; Maffre 2007, n. 10; IGCyr 001700 .

Text

Interpretive

Τὀπόλλōνος ⋮ δεκάτα

Diplomatic

ΤΟΠΟΛΛŌΝΟΣ ΔΕΚΑΤΑ

French translation

Dîme d'Apollon

English translation

Apollo's tithe.

Italian translation

Decima di Apollo.

Arabic translation

عشر أبوللو

Commentary

This is one of the few graffiti that are complete and allow restoration of the numerous broken ones.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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