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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Dedication to Apollo

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0025002
Trismegistos ID: 738127

Source description

Support: Fragmentary foot of cup, Attic black-glazed ware (diameter c. 0.065).

Layout: Scratched under foot.

Letters: 0.004-0.012; to be read from outside.

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

Findspot: Found in 1928 at Cyrene: Sanctuary of Apollo, under the Trajanic Baths.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by L. Gasperini in 1961 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Not seen by IGCyr team.

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

Bibliography

Oliverio 1930 p. 221, n. 38 (ph.), whence SEG, 9.305; Gasperini 1995, n. 2 (=Gasperini – Arnaldi – Marengo 2008, pp. 324-325 (dr.)), whence SEG, 44.1541, 2; Maffre 2007, n. 7; IGCyr 002500 .

Text

Interpretive

Tõ Ἀπό[λλōνο]ς̣.

Diplomatic

TÕΑΠΟ[.....].

Apparatus

1: Ἀπό[λλōνο]ς̣ Gasperini 1995: Ἀπό[λōνος] Oliverio 1930

French translation

Bien d'Apollon.

English translation

Belonging to Apollo.

Italian translation

Proprietà di Apollo.

Arabic translation

ملكاً لأبوللو

Commentary

The graffito might have consisted only of the divine name at the genitive, or have been completed either with the verb 'to be' or with the word 'tithe'.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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