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Dedication to Apollo

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0301002
Trismegistos ID: 738293

Source description

Support: Two joining small fragments of an Attic black-glazed ware cup (dimensions unknown).

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

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: Fifth century BC

Findspot: Found in 1927 at Cyrene: between the Altar of Apollo and the Temple of Jason Magnus.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found.

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

Bibliography

Oliverio 1929, p. 143, n. 18, fig. 41, whence SEG, 9.312; IGCyr 030100 . Cf. Lazzarini 1976, p. 274, n. 697.c; Maffre 2007, p. 168, n. 3.

Text

Interpretive

[Τõ Ἀπόλο̄]νος δεκ[άτα].

Diplomatic

[........]ΝΟΣΔΕΚ[...]

Apparatus

1: δεκ[άτα] SEG: δεκ[άταν] Oliverio 1929; δεκ[άτα] Maffre 2007; δεκ[άταν] Maffre 2007

French translation

Dîme d'Apollon.

English translation

Apollo's tithe.

Italian translation

Decima di Apollo.

Commentary

As the editor of SEG rightly put it, it is impossible to have the accusative of the word 'tithe' with the genitive of the god's name.

Lazzarini took the readings of SEG without mentioning any restoration.

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Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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