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Dedication to Apollo Myrtoos

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0060002
Trismegistos ID: 738166

Source description

Support: Fragmentary upper part and rim of a kantharos, Attic black-glazed ware (w: 0.09- × h: 0.045-).

Layout: Scratched on outside under rim.

Letters: 0.011.

Date: 350-310 BC (monument type).

Findspot: Found before 1987 at Cyrene: plausibly Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by J.-J. Maffre in 1987 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor (CDL).

Bibliography

Maffre 2007, p. 178, n. 45 (ph.), whence SEG, 57.2002, 10; Dobias-Lalou 2015, p. 74; IGCyr 006000 .

Text

Interpretive

[Ἀπόλλω]ν̣ι Μυρτώ̣[ιωι ---]

Diplomatic

[......].ΙΜΥΡΤ.[...---]

Apparatus

1: [Ἀπόλλω]ν̣ι Μυρτώ̣[ιωι] Dobias-Lalou 2015: [---]ν Μυρτό[ο---] Maffre 2007

French translation

À Apollon Myrtoos [---].

English translation

To Apollo Myrtoos [---].

Italian translation

Per Apollo Myrtoos [---].

Commentary

From the photograph one can clearly see at left end a small part of nu, followed by iota, whereas the last letter at right end should be a round letter with a crooked summit, for which omega would be a good candidate, in agreement with the date of the ceramics.

Apollo Myrtoos also appears much later, in a dedication to the emperor Nero, cf. IRCyr2020 C.288.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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