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Dedication to Apollo

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0030002
Trismegistos ID: 738132

Source description

Support: Four fragments of small vessel, Attic black-glazed ware (diameter 0.075).

Layout: Scratched.

Letters: 0.005.

Date: Perhaps, first half of the fifth century BC (monument type).

Findspot: Found by G. Oliverio before 1935 at Cyrene: Sanctuary of Apollo, Fountain Terrace.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team; already lost in 1987 (Maffre).

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio , VI.69 (dr.), whence Pugliese Carratelli in SECir, 151 (no image); Dobias-Lalou 1970, p. 248, n. 17; Maffre 2007, n. 19; IGCyr 003000 .

Text

Interpretive

hιαρο͂[ν]
δεκάτα

Diplomatic

HΙΑΡΟ[.]
ΔΕΚΑΤΑ

Apparatus

1: hιαρο͂[ν]: hιαρό̄[ν]hιαρό[ν] Dobias-Lalou 1970sic; hιαρό[ν] SECir

French translation

Dîme des biens du dieu.

English translation

Tithe from the divine goods.

Italian translation

Decima dei beni divini.

Commentary

We take ἱαρο͂ν to be a genitive neuter plural. As shown in IGCyr0167002, line 58, the properties of a δεκατός are common property of him and the god. It is thus conceivable that they deserve the word ἱαρός as long as the tithe has not been consecrated. This gives a better reading than the neuter singular ἱαρόν, proposed by Pugliese Carratelli and hitherto accepted, which might however be possible if both words were independant nominal sentences.

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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