Support: Fragment of limestone block chipped off on all sides except on top (w: 0.32 × h: 0.18 × d: 0.075).

Layout: Inscribed on front face

Letters: 0.025; no serifs; alpha with low bar, rho with large loop.

Date: Second third of fourth century BC (lettering, prosopography).

Findspot: Found in 1925 by L. Pernier at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, Temple of Apollo, re-used in its 3d phase in a wall East of the thesauron.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, Temple of Apollo, cella in its 1st phase.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 297. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Kallippos fils d'Aiglanôr (scil. a consacré ce monument) comme dîme.

English translation

Kallippos son of Aiglanor (scil. dedicated this monument) as a tithe.

Italian translation

Kallippos figlio di Aiglanor (scil. ha dedicato questo monumento) come decima.

Commentary

The dedicant should be one of the thearoi sent to Delphi mentioned at IGCyr064100².

Pernier's archive kept at Macerata gives more information about the discovery (see Bartolini 2014, p. 167, fig. 9).

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Images

Fig. 1. Face of igcyr095400 Tithe

Fig. 2. Drawing of igcyr095400 Tithe

Fig. 3. Squeeze of igcyr095400 Tithe

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