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Dedication to Apollo by Philon

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0179002
Trismegistos ID: 106091

Source description

Support: Three fragments of a white marble panel: missing parts towards the left and at right upper angle (total reconstructed w: 2.49 × h: 0.73 × d: 0.035).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: Average 0.088, omicron 0.067, very carefully cut, without serifs.

Date: Ca. 340 BC (prosopography).

Findspot: Found in 1926 at Cyrene: re-used as pavement in frigidarium of Trajanic Baths.

Place of origin: Cyrene: facing of the Northern side of Apollo's altar .

Last recorded location: Seen in 1983 and many times again until 2010 by C. Dobias-Lalou at Cyrene: on the reconstructed altar of Apollo. Seen in 2012 by Rosamilia at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio 1928, p. 325, n. 2, whence SEG, 9.85; IGCyr 017900 ; Rosamilia 2023, pp. 325-326, number 66 a (text). Cf. Laronde 1987, pp. 108-110, 116, whence SEG, 38.1894.

Text

Interpretive

| Φ[ί] | λ̣ων Αννικεριο | [ς]
| τὸ[ν β] | ωμὸν ἀνέθηκε τὸν λύγδ̣ | [ινο]ν

Diplomatic

| Φ[.] | .ΩΝΑΝΝΙΚΕΡΙΟ | [.]
| ΤΟ[..] | ΩΜΟΝΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΤΟΝΛΥΓ. | [...]Ν

French translation

Philon fils d'Annikeris a consacré l'autel de marbre.

English translation

Philon son of Annikeris dedicated the marble altar.

Italian translation

Philon figlio di Annikeris ha dedicato l'altare di marmo.

Commentary

Philo's dedication consisted in remodeling the older limestone altar with white marble (see also IGCyr0180002).

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