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Dedication to Artemis (?)

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0031002
Trismegistos ID: 738133

Source description

Support: Vessel with two handles; Proto-corinthian ware (h: 0.27-; diameter 0.016-0.35).

Layout: Light scratched on outside.

Letters:

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

Findspot: Found by G. Oliverio in 1925 at Cyrene: Sanctuary of Apollo, Temple of Artemis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seems to be lost.

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

Bibliography

Oliverio , XI.43, whence SECir, 191 (no image); Dobias-Lalou 1970, p. 248, n. 17; IGCyr 003100 .

Text

Interpretive

hε̄ρακλείδε̄ς̣ Κλεα[---]

Diplomatic

HΕ̄ΡΑΚΛΕΙΔΕ̄.ΚΛΕΑ[---]

French translation

Herakleides, fils de Klea[---].

English translation

Herakleides, son of Klea[---].

Italian translation

Herakleides, figlio di Klea[---].

Commentary

Published by Pugliese Carratelli from a drawing of Oliverio (not given). In fact, Oliverio 1927, p. 158 already described the graffito and gave its provenance: a thesauron inside the pronaos of the 2nd-phase Artemision.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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