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Dedication to Apollo

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0294002
Trismegistos ID: 738286

Source description

Support: Fragment of an Attic black-glazed ware cup (w: 0.06 × h: 0.027).

Layout: Scratched under the foot: to be read from outside.

Letters: 0.01.

Date: Fifth century BC (monument type).

Findspot: Found in 1928 at Cyrene: Trajanic Baths, under the so-called Great Hall, on the rocky ground (3.2 deep).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.

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

Bibliography

Oliverio 1930, p. 220, n. 35, fig. 81, whence SEG, 9.302; IGCyr 029400 . Cf. Jeffery 1961, p. 324, n. 21, whence SEG, 20.722; Lazzarini 1976, p. 250, n. 530.1; Maffre 2007, p. 168, n. 4.

Text

Interpretive

[Δεκάτα? τὀπό]λōνος.

Diplomatic

[..........]ΛŌΝΟΣ

Apparatus

1: [Δεκάτα?]: Oliverio 1930, Lazzarini 1976 || [τὀ̄πό]λōνος Oliverio 1930: [---]ΙΟΝΟΣ Maffre 2007

French translation

[Dîme?] d'Apollon.

English translation

Apollo's [tithe.?]

Italian translation

[Decima?] di Apollo.

Commentary

Maffre is doubtful about the first letter, which he supposes to be an iota; however, it is more likely to be the right half of a lambda.

Owing to the rest of the documentation, it is possible but not compulsory to restore the word for 'tithe' in the gap.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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