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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Dedication to Apollo

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0027002
Trismegistos ID: 738129

Source description

Support: Three adjacent fragments of foot of a cup, Attic black-glazed ware (diameter 0.089).

Layout: Scratched under foot.

Letters: 0.005-0.01; pi may seem to be cut right to left, but the left hasta is in fact lost due to the break and the right hasta is rather long.

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

Findspot: Found before 1938 at Cyrene: Sanctuary of Apollo, Fountain Terrace.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by J.-J. Maffre (who added the third fragment) in 1987 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Not seen by IGCyr team.

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

Bibliography

Oliverio , VIII, whence SECir, 152g (no image) and Maffre 2007, n. 24 (ph.); IGCyr 002700 .

Text

Interpretive

[Δεκά]τα : τὀπόλλōν̣[ος]

Diplomatic

[....]ΤΑ : ΤΟΠΟΛΛŌ.[..]

Apparatus

1: τὀ̄πόλλōν̣[ος]: τὀ̄πόλλōν̣[ος]; τὀ̄πόλλōν̣[ι] τὀπόλλ[ōνι] SECir Oliverio

French translation

Dîme d'Apollon.

English translation

Apollo's tithe.

Italian translation

Decima di Apollo.

Commentary

With the nominative case δεκάτα, the god's name should have the genitive.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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